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Two major Catholic polemics addressing Eucharistic and Christological controversies

ALGERUS and Desiderius ERASMUS (editor). De veritate corporis & sanguinis d[ominici in Eucharistia, cum refutatione diversaru[m] circa hoc haereseon, opus pium iuxta ac doctum ...
Cologne, [Jaspar von Gennep] Peter Quentel, August 1535.
With (bound before ad 1):
VIGILIUS. Opera ...
Including: CASSANDER, Georg. Commentarius de duabus in Christo naturis ...
Cologne, Arnold Birckman, 1555. 2 works in 1 volume, ad 1 in 2 parts. 8vo. With an elaborate woodcut border on the title page of ad 1, several decorated woodcut initials, and a Quentels woodcut printers device at the end. Limp overlapping vellum with ties. 255 pp.; [16], 143, [1 blank]; 52 ll. Full description
€ 4,500
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Early Erasmus edition of Arnobius, bound in a contemporary Cologne armorial binding

ARNOBIUS and Desiderius ERASMUS (editor). Arnobii aphri, vetusti pariter ac laudatissimi scriptoris in omneis palmos co[m]mentarii, iuxta pij atq[ue] eruditi. Including: ERASMUS, Desiderius. Commentarius in psalmum, quare fremuerunt gentes.
Cologne, Eucharius Cervicornus, 1522. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an elaborate woodcut frame on the title page, and 2 smaller woodcut frames on the first pages of the texts, and 5 woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary blind-tooled calf with armorial panel-stamps. Sewn on 4 supports, with corresponding raised bands on the spine, with remnants of 4 pairs of green closing ties, re-backed. [166], [36] ll. Full description
€ 3,500
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A complete set of the 1569 Froben edition of the complete works of Saint Augustine of Hippo
edited by Erasmus and others, in uniform contemporary bindings

AUGUSTINE of Hippo (Saint AUGUSTINE), Desiderius ERASMUS (editor), and others. Primus [- decimus] tomus eximii patris, inter summa latinae ecclesiae ornamenta ac lumina principis, D. Aurelii Augustini Hipponensis episcopi ...
Basel, Ambrosius & Aurelius Froben, 1569. 11 parts in 10 volumes. Folio (38 x 25.5 cm). With the general title page in volume 1 set within an elaborate woodcut frame, all other title pages show the large woodcut Froben printer's device, repeated on all but one verso of the final page in each part. Further with woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary half elaborately blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, sewn on 5 supports (volume 1 on 4), with two brass clasps on the fore edge (leather anchor plate, brass clasp and catch plate). With the manuscript titles on the spines and the contents of each volume in manuscript on the bottom edge of all but one volume. Probably bound by Michael Hermann in Stuttgart before 1580. Full description
€ 14,500
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Treatise on education and pedagogy based on the Christian religion

BASEDOW, Johann Bernhard. Methodischer Unterricht der Jugend in der Religion und Sittenlehre der Vernunft nach dem in der Philalethie angegebenen Plane.
Altona, David Iversen, 1764.With: (2) BASEDOW, Johann Bernhard. Methodischer Unterricht in der überzeugenden Erkenntniss der biblischen Religion, zur vorgesetzten Ausführung des in der Philalethie angegebenen Plans.
Altona, David Iversen, 1764.
2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With an engraved illustration on both title-pages (not identical) and some woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Slightly later brown pastepaper boards, with title-label on spine, red sprinkled edges. LXII, 272; XXXII, 224, 144 pp. Full description
€ 2,000
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Four rare political tracts

BEN SADDI, Nathan (= Robert DODSLEY). Chronique des rois d'Angleterre, ecrite en Anglois selon le stile des anciens historiens Juifs.
London [= Hanover?], Thomas Cooper [= Johann Wilhelm Schmidt?], 1743. Title in red & black with engraved vignette (a seascape with a sea creature in the foreground), headpieces and tailpieces. 144; [4], XXIV, 191, [1 blank], [2], 192-228; 108; 16 pp. Full description
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The classic book of Biblical travels: the first edition to be accompanied
by the complementary Lower Saxon chronicle in contemporary, richly blind-tooled Saxon pigskin

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
€ 27,500
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Erasmus early translation of Basil, a theological recovery of the Church Fathers

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
€ 3,500
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Important biography of one of the leading figures of the Protestant Reformation

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
€ 3,500
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Rare edition of Chrysostom's letters and shorter works, compiled and edited by Erasmus

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
€ 2,750
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