Religion & Devotion / Humanism & Reformation

BODIUS, Hermann. Unio dissidentium, omnibus unitatis & pacis amatoribus utilissima, ex praecipuis Ecclesiae Christianae doctoribus ... selecta, & iam denuo aucta & locupletata ...
(Colophon:) Cologne, Johann Gymnich, September 1531. 8vo (15.1 x 10.1 cm). With a woodcut title frame. Contemporary blind-tooled calf. [32], 539, [4], [1 blank] pp. Full description

BREEN, Daniel van. Van 't geestelijck triumpherende ryck onses heeren Jesu Christi ...
Amsterdam, Frans Kuyper, 1666. 4to (22.5 x 18.5 cm). Early 18th-century parchment. [8], 166, [26] pp. Full description

BULLINGER, Heinrich. Von dem unverschampten Fraefel ergerlichem Verwyrren unnd unwarhafftem Leeren der selbsgesandten Widertoeuffer vier Gespraech Buecher ... Ein gueter Bericht vonn Zinsen. Ouch ein schoene Underwysung von Zaehenden.
(Colophon:) Zürich, Christoph Froschauer, 1531. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo (14.6 x 9.5 cm). With woodcut decorated initials throughout. 19th-century vellum. [8], CLXXVIII ll. Full description

BÜNTING, Heinrich and Matthias HASAERT. Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae, das ist Ein Reisebuch uber die gantze Heilige Schrifft ...
Including:
[BÜNTING, Heinrich]. Itinerarium Novi Testamenti. Das ist: Ein Reisebuch over das Newe Testament.
BÜNTING, Heinrich. De monetis et mensuris sacrae scripturae. Dass ist: Ein eigentliche ausrechnung und beschreibung aller Müntz und Masse in heiliger Schrift. ...
Magdeburg, Paul Donat for Ambrosius Kirchner, 1585. With 3 title-pages, 7 double-page and 2 full-page woodcut maps
With: (2) BÜNTING, Heinrich. Braunschweigische und Luneburgische Chronica.
Including:
Das ander Theil Braunschweigischen Chronica, gehet auff das Land Lüneburg
Das dritte Theil, der Braunschweigischen und Lüneburgischen Chronica, ...
Das vierte Theil dieses Buches, gehet insonderheit auff das Fürstenthumb Grubenhagen, füret ... den geburts Stam des fürstlichen Hauses Braunschweig und Lüneburg.
Magdeburg, Paul Donat for Ambrosius Kirchner, 1584-1585. General title-page in red and black with the woodcut coat of arms of Julius of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, further with numerous finely detailed woodcut illustrations
2 works in 3 and 4 volumes, bound as 1. Folio. Contemporary, richly blind-tooled pigskin, possibly by Nikolaus Müller in Wittenberg. With a matching pair of panel stamps in the central fields: portraits of Martin Luther (front board, 83 x 44 mm) and Phillip Melanchthon (back board, 81 x 45 mm), each with the date 1556 and text below. Ad 1: [16], “141” [= 242], [18]; [6], 110, [9] [3 blank]; [6], “34” [= 33], [1 blank] pp.; ad 2: [14], “150” [= 151], [1 blank]; “46” [= 47]. [1 blank]; [1], 47-82, [1 blank]; [1], “82”-“113” [= 83-109] ll. Full description

CAESAREA, Basil of (SAINT BASIL, attributed) and Desiderius ERASMUS (translator). Opus argutum ac pium, de spiritu sancto ad amphilochium.
Paris, Chréstien Wechel and Jean Roigny, 1532. Small 8vo (9.5 x 14.9 cm). With Wechels woodcut printers device on the title page and the verso of the otherwise blank last leaf, and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Modern limp overlapping vellum. 124, [3 blank],[1] pp. Full description

CAMERARIUS, Joachim. De Philippi Melanchthonis ortu, totius vitae curriculo et morte, implicata rerum memorabilium temporis illius hominumque mentione atque indicio, cum expositionis serie cohaerentium.
Leipzig, (colophon: Ernst Voegelin, 1566). Large 8vo (19.5 x 12 cm). With woodcut printer's device on title-page. Contemporary pigskin, richly blind-tooled in a panel design, monogrammed and dated "I.V.S | 1566", by the Swabian bookbinder Wolfconrad Schwickart. [20], 423[=424], [2 blank], [18] pp. Full description

CHRYSOSTOM, John and Desiderius ERASMUS (editor). Aliquot opuscula ... Graeca, lectu dignissima, cu[m] praefatione Erasmi Roterodami, cuius studio sunt aedita.
(Colophon:) Basel, Froben Office, 1529. 4to. With Froben's printer's device on the title page and last leaf, and 10 decorated woodcut initials. 17th-century blind-tooled vellum [8], 95, [1] pp. Full description

CRESPIN, Jean. Actiones et monimenta martyrum, eorum qui a Wicleffo et Husso ad nostram hanc aetatem ... veritatem evangelicam sanguine suo constanter obsignaverunt.
Genève, Jean Crespin, 1560.
With: (2) [PIBRAC, Guy du Faur, seigneur de]. De rebus Gallicis, ad Stanislaum Elvidium, epistola. Et ad hanc de iisdem rebus Gallicis responsio.
[Paris, Fédérique Morel], 1573.
(3) [A. Q. F]. Memoriae Casparis Coligni Chastilonaei com. ductoris classis Gallicae ... una cum aliis ex nobilitate Gallica insidiose interfecti D. XXIIII. M. Vil. ann. Christi M. D. LXXII.
1572. 3 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page of ad 1, several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary richly blind-tooled panelled pigskin, with the arms of the Holy Roman Empire in the central panel on the front, and the arms of August of Saxony on the back, surrounded by two figurative and one ornamental border, the initials G.F.N. and the date 1573 on the front, signed by bookbinder S. Rab(e). [18], 321, [1] ll.; 102, [2 blank]; [1], [1 blank], 5, [1 blank] pp. Full description

CROCUS, Cornelius. Ecclesia ad confirmandam fidem catholicorum dogmatum, & stabiliendos animos adversus falsae doctrinae ventos, nimium extremis hisce periculosis temporibus ...
Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus (colophon:) for Joannes Steelsius, 1536. 8vo (15.3 x 8.5 cm). With a full page woodcut illustration incorporating Steelsius' device at the end, and with 1 woodcut decorated initial. Modern printer's waste paper binding. [55] ll. Full description

CRONBERG, Hartmuth von. Meyn ... personlich fürbringen fuer dem hochlöbliche[n] keyserliche[n] regime[n]t zu Nürnberg, das heilig eva[n]gelium un[d] wort gottes betreffend.
Zwickau, [Jörg Gastel], 1523. 4to. With an architectural woodcut title frame. Modern purple painted paper wrappers. [4] ll. Full description