De sacrificiis libri duo : quorum altero explicantur omnia Judæorum, nonnulla gentium profanarum sacrificia : altero sacrificium Christi :

utroque ecclesiæ Catholicæ his de rebus sententia contra Faustum Socinum, ejúsque sectatores defenditur / autore Guilielmo Outramo. Amsterdam : Abraham van Someren, 1688. Duodecimo (160 x 105 mm), contemporary limp vellum (some staining) with manuscript title to spine; title-leaf with printer’s device, pp. 6, [2], 1-264, [265]-344, [12]; a small section with dog-eared lower corners, pale water stain to fore-edge margin of around 50 pages towards the end of the text, otherwise internally very good.

Scarce Amsterdam edition of a significant anti-Unitarian text by English clergyman William Owtram (1626-1679), Archdeacon of Leicester. First published in London in 1677, Owtram’s best known work contains a detailed study of religious ritual sacrifice. The first part examines Jewish rituals and sacrifices, and the second the Christian concept of sacrifice. It also provides a defence of the doctrine of atonement against the Socinians – a group who rejected the doctrine of the Trinity in favour of Unitarianism.