Law.- Papal jurisdiction.- Vargas Meija (Francisco de) De episcoporum iurisdictione, et pontificis max. auctoritate, responsum, first edition, title with woodcut printer's device, initial spaces with guide-letters, some foxing, lightly browned, engraved armorial and LA Law Library bookplates to front endpapers, early 19th century half calf, rebacked, preserving gilt backstrip (with little loss and some staining) with red leather label, corners little worn, rubbed, [Adams V272; Renouard 188:6], small 4to, Rome, Paulus Manutius, 1563.

⁂ A discussion of the limits of the power of the Pope and his Archbishops and Bishops, especially pertinent with the rise of Protestantism across Europe.