Cologne: Johann Gymnich, 1536.

Price: $8,500.00

Bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards (moderate surface wear, 1 catch and both catch-plates preserved). Fine copies internally. Historiated woodcut initials.With 65 known manuscripts, the “Dialogue Against the Jews” was one of the most widespread anti-Jewish texts in the Late Middle Ages. The author, the originally Jewish doctor...

Geneva: Conrad Badius, 1561.

Price: $7,500.00

Title page within a woodcut border with the printer's device at the center. A fine, fresh copy in contemporary limp vellum with overlapping edges, manuscript title on the spine and lower edge, remnants of ties, light stain on the back panel, inked-out ownership's entry dated 1606 on the title page...

London: By Iohn Day, dwelling ouer Aldersgate, beneath Saint Martines, 1564.

Price: $24,000.00

A very fine copy, clean throughout, bound in early 20th c. brown morocco, gilt. Printed in Black Letter, With a fine, historiated, woodcut title page border populated by swans, youths playing instruments, griffins, and masks. A large woodcut illustration, taken from Foxe’s “Martyrs”, shows six reformers being burned at the...

[Basel: Pamphilus Gengenbach], 1521.

Price: $5,500.00

This work is the second of Eberlin’s “Fünfzehn Bundsgenossen” (“The Fifteen Confederates”). Bound in quarter vellum and modern patterned boards. A nice copy, title a little dusty and with small marginal stain, with a title woodcut of Jesus disputing with the Devil set within an ornamental historiated border.Eberlin von Günzburg...

Cologne: Ex aedibus nostris [Peter Quentel], 1535.

Price: $7,500.00

Bound in 19th-century quarter calf, rebacked with spine preserved, some wear to extremities. A very good copy with occ. light foxing and scattered pencil notes in the margins. Light stain to one leaf (X4), last leaf verso lightly soiled. With numerous fine woodcut historiated initials. Elaborate woodcut title border by...

Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 1524.

Price: $15,000.00

Bound in 20th c. green morocco with gilt turn-ins. A fine copy, a.e.g., with a fine woodcut title border, woodcut initials, and occ. contemporary annotations. The title border incorporates Schöffer's coat of arms (see Johnson no. 62 and Pflugk-Harttung no. 52).Ulrich von Hutten's famous work on the treatment of syphilis...

Wittenberg: Melchior Lotter, 1521.

Price: $5,600.00

Modern marbled boards, vellum spine and corners. A fine copy with contemporary marginalia in red and black. Provenance: Alain Moirandat, Switzerland.Luther wrote his “The Magnificat Translated into German and Explained” in two parts, the first composed before his appearance at the Diet of Worms and the second part while he...

Augsburg: Silvan Otmar, 1519.

Price: $4,500.00

Bound in modern patterned paper over thin boards. V. light soiling, lower margin cut a bit close. Attractive woodcut border on title.An important, early work by Luther, written at a crucial moment in his confrontation with the Rome, that showcases his evolving ideas on such diverse matters as indulgences and...

Wittenberg: Cranach and Döring, 1524.

Price: $5,500.00

Bound in marbled boards. With an excellent woodcut title page by Lucas Cranach (Luther 43c), cut from a single block, with putti, cornucopiae, architectural motifs and stags. A good copy, light soiling, a few stains.First edition of Luther’s response to the growing danger posed by the radical preacher Thomas Münzer...

[Bamberg: Georg Erlinger], 1523.

Price: $4,500.00

An excellent, clean copy with broad margins. Bound in modern speckled boards. With a fine woodcut title page border.As with many aspects of Church ritual and practice, Luther perceived the liturgy to have been corrupted and in need of serious reform. “Three great and serious misuses have entered into divine...

Tübingen, Ulrich Morhart the Elder, June, 1523.

Price: $7,600.00

Three works bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, ruled and stamped in blind, both clasps intact, with light stains and smudges. The text is in excellent, crisp condition, the last three leaves with a slim worm trail affecting a couple of words on each leaf. Contemporary manuscript index...

[Rouen: Printed at Fr. Parsons’s press], 1585.

Price: $7,400.00

Bound early in 18th c. speckled calf, paneled in blind, spine repaired, corners worn. Text a bit grubby, numerous light stains, margins trimmed close affecting some headlines and some side-notes. Ink smudge on leaf V1, small hole in lvs. H1 and Kk2, lvs. Ddd1 and 5 with marginal tears, no...

Eilenburg: Nikolaus Widemar, 1524.

Price: $4,500.00

With a woodcut title page illustration of the shoemaker, the canon, and the canon's housekeeper. Bound in 20th c. brown morocco by Zaehnsdorf, gilt spine. Title a trifle dusty. Printed by Eilenburg's first printer, who apparently operated his shop for the Leipzig printer Wolfgang Stöckel. Provenance: Broxbourne Library with bookplate...