Commentariorum de statu religionis & Reipublicae, Carolo Quinto Carsare Libri XXVI. Vnà cum apologia ab ipso Authore conscripta.

SLEIDANUS (i.e. Philippi), Johannes

Verlag: Strasbourg, Theodosius Rihelius (about 1560).

Beschreibung

8vo. (8) lvs., 872 pp., (12) lvs. (the last two blanks). Printer's device in woodcut. Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (rubbed, darkened, stained, edges and corners with leather defects), two spine labels, 2 original clasps (1 defective). Still early edition of this important history of reformation (first edition: 1555). The well preserved binding is decorated on both boards with a plate containing a non-identified figure and a text ("I REGVM / XVI. CAP.") in a cartouche surrounded by a roll with Spes, Caritas and Fides. Front fly-leaf and end-paper with ownership and donation entries one of them extensive, dated ("1611") and referring to a priest Christopher Christen). Title with entry as well. Front joint cracked. Slightly browned throughout, in places small brown-stains, first gatherings with water-marking to outer edges. Some manuscript annotations and under-linings. V. d. Vekene (Sleidanus) E/a 020.F; Adams S 1294; this variant not in VD 16 and in BMSTC (German Books). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 594

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Commentariorum de statu religionis & ...

Verlag: Strasbourg, Theodosius Rihelius (about 1560).

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Gut