The Reformation: English & Continental

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Confessio Fidei exhibita inuictiss. imp. Carolo V. caesari aug. in comicijs Augustae. Anno M.D....

Confessio Fidei exhibita inuictiss. imp. Carolo V. caesari aug. in comicijs Augustae. Anno M.D. XXX. Addita est Apologia confessionis [Bound with: Confessio doctrinae saxonicarum ecclesiarum. Leipzig, V. Bapst, 1553]

Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1542, 1556.

Price: $7,500.00

Bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, one clasp defective, binding soiled and mildly worn and with small defects. The boards are ruled and tooled in blind, signed and dated “IPN 1556”. The contents are in excellent, crisp condition (one leaf working loose, marginal tear in margin of leaf...

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Les vies des évesques et papes de Rome, depuis la disper- sion des Disciples de Iesus Christ,...

Les vies des évesques et papes de Rome, depuis la disper- sion des Disciples de Iesus Christ, iusques au temps de Paul quatrieme, qui a present regne tyranniquement en l'Eglise, prinses du grand Catalogue des escrivains d'Angleter- re,... Nouvellement traduites de Latin en François...

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...

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The Plea for Infants and Elder People, concerning their Baptisme. Or a processe of the passages...

The Plea for Infants and Elder People, concerning their Baptisme. Or a processe of the passages between M. John Smyth and Richard Clyfton: wherein, first is proved, that the baptising of Infants of beleevers, is an ordinance of God. Secondly, that the rebaptising of such, as have been formerly baptised in the Apostate Churches of Christians, is utterly unlawful

Amsterdam: Gyles Thorp, 1610.

Price: $9,800.00

Bound in 17th c. stiff vellum, somewhat soiled. A nice copy of this very rare Continental Puritan imprint. With skillful, discreet paper repairs to outer blank margins of some leaves, no loss to text, some other marks and minor marginal soiling, very small worm trail in blank lower margin of some...

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Certain most godly, fruitful, and comfortable letters of such true saintes and holy martyrs of...

Certain most godly, fruitful, and comfortable letters of such true saintes and holy martyrs of God, as in the late bloodye persecution here within this realme, gaue their lyues for the defence of Christes holy gospel: written in the tyme of theyr affliction and cruell imprysonment.

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

Price: $18,000.00

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...

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Articles to be enquyred in the visitation, in the fyrste yeare of the raygne of our moost drad...

Articles to be enquyred in the visitation, in the fyrste yeare of the raygne of our moost drad soueraygne Lady, Elizabeth by the grace of God, of Englande Fraunce, and Irelande, Quene, defender of the fayth. &c. Anno 1559

London: Imprinted… in Povles Churcheyarde by Richard Iugge and Iohn Cavvood, Printers to the Quenes Maiestie, 1559.

Price: $22,000.00

Bound in 19th c. marbled boards. A fine, wide-margined copy. The title is set within an architectural woodcut border (McKerrow & Ferguson 83) with Cawood’s monogram in the shield. A large woodcut initial (of Arcas and Callisto?) appears on leaf A2.With the signature of the 16th c. book collector Humphrey...

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Moriae encomium D. Erasmi Roterodami cu[m] Gerardi Listrii trium linguarum periti commentariis....

Moriae encomium D. Erasmi Roterodami cu[m] Gerardi Listrii trium linguarum periti commentariis. Praemittuntur Ludus L. Annei Senec[ae], de morte Claudii, cu[m] scholiis Beati Rhenani. Synesius Cyrenen[sis] de Laudibus caluitii. Adduntur Martini Dorpii theologi ad Erasmum epistola et Erasmi ad eandem responsio apologetica.

Paris: Jodocus Badius Ascensius, 1524.

Price: $12,500.00

Bound in contemporary limp vellum, lightly soiled. The contents are in very good condition with a few pencil annotations and light soiling to the title page. With Badius' device of his print shop, the “Praelum Ascensianum” showing printers working a press, on the title page. With large, attractive crible initials...

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Iohannes Frobenius lectori. Habes iterum Morias Encomiu[m] / pro castigatissimo castigatius ; una...

Iohannes Frobenius lectori. Habes iterum Morias Encomiu[m] / pro castigatissimo castigatius ; una cu[m] Listrij co[m]mentarijs, [et] alijs complusculis libellis, non minus eruditis q[uam] festiuis ; quorum catalogum proxima mox indicabit pagella (Lvdvs L. Annei Senecæ de morte Claudii Cæsaris. Synesivs Cyrenensis de laudibus Caluitii. Epistola apologetica Ersami Roterodami ad Martinum Dorpium.) Bene uale. [Bound with:] Germania Enee Silvii: in qua candide lector continentur : gravamina germanice nationis : confutatio eorundem cum replicis ; de concilio Constantiensi & Basiliensi ; describuntur hic urbes, civitates, ecclesie, episcopatus, abbacie, principatus & principatus & nobilissime familie Germanorum… De concordatis principum. De officio pape & suis officialibus. De veritate Christiane religionis [Bound with:] Lepida Lactantij Firmiani opera accurate græco adiuncto castigata: Eiusdem Nephytomon: Carmina de Phoenice. & Christi Resurrectione. Io. Chry. de Eucharistia sermo. Lau. Val. sermo. Phil. ad theo. Adhortatio.

Basel: and Strasbourg: and Paris: Io. Froben, and Excusum per Renatu[m] Beck in aedibus zum Thiergarten, and Jean Petit, In vico Sancti Iacobi, 1515 and 1515 and, 1513.

Price: $20,500.00

Bound in contemporary, quarter alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards with working clasps and catches. The pigskin is tooled in blind with repeating vines and floral rolls. The text and binding are beautifully preserved. The contents are fresh and bright, with wide margins and a number of deckled edges. Excellent. The...

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Herr Erasmus von Ro||terdam/ verteutschte außlegung/|| über das/ go[e]ttlich tro[e]stlich wort...

Herr Erasmus von Ro||terdam/ verteutschte außlegung/|| über das/ go[e]ttlich tro[e]stlich wort || vnsers lieben Herrñ vnnd selig=||machers Christi/ Nement auff || euch mein Joch/ vnd ler=||nent von mir.

[Mainz: Johann Schöffer, 1521.

Price: $5,200.00

Bound in modern wrappers. . A good copy with a light dampstain to the upper corner. Occ. light soiling. With a fine woodcut title page border.A German translation of Erasmus’ annotation on Mathew 11:29 (taken from his “In Novum Testamentum annotationes”) in which Erasmus differentiates between the divine order and...

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Ein trostliche ermanung den angefocht(e)n gewissen vo(n) wegen gethoner sünd, wye un(d) wamitt...

Ein trostliche ermanung den angefocht(e)n gewissen vo(n) wegen gethoner sünd, wye un(d) wamitt Sye getröst werdenn, den Sathan, sich nit erschrecken lassenn.

Augsburg: M. Ramminger, 1524.

Price: $4,500.00

A crisp, bright copy in a modern guard. With a very fine four-part woodcut border with a gentleman and a lady. Excellent.Hans Greiffenberger was a Nuremberg painter who ran afoul of the authorities for both his art and for his subversive religious activism. In October 1524 he was investigated on...

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De Coelibatv, Monachatv, et Vidvitate. Andreas Rudolff-Bodenstein von Karlstadt

De Coelibatv, Monachatv, et Vidvitate

[Basel:]: [Andreas Cratander], 1521.

Price: $6,500.00

A fine, fresh copy with broad margins, in modern marbled wrappers. Title-page with the woodcut “Indian border”, dated 1519.Karlstadt’s controversial critique of monasticism and his condemnation of clerical celibacy. In many instances and on many important matters, Karlstadt’s work and actions anticipate those of Luther (although the political and theological...

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Ayn Sermon am tag unser Frawen Liechtmeß gethon zuo Witemberg durch Doctor Marthin Luther. Im...

Ayn Sermon am tag unser Frawen Liechtmeß gethon zuo Witemberg durch Doctor Marthin Luther. Im Jar MDXXIII.

Augsburg: Melchior Ramminger, 1523.

Price: $5,500.00

Modern boards. A fine copy with a beautiful four-part title page border, the lower register of which shows a stag hunt. There is also a small woodcut of the Virgin, balancing on the crescent moon, and holding the infant Christ.A sermon for Lichtmeß (Candlemas), the feast of the presentation of...

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Das Elltern die kinder zur Ehe nicht zwingen noch hyndern, Vnd die kinder on der elltern willen...

Das Elltern die kinder zur Ehe nicht zwingen noch hyndern, Vnd die kinder on der elltern willen sich nicht verloben sollen.

[Wittenberg]: [Cranach and Döring], 1524.

Price: $5,200.00

Bound in modern wrappers. With a title border by Lucas Cranach the Elder showing Luther’s monogram and the Luther rose (Luther, Titeleinfassungen, Plate 42). A nice copy with insignificant faults (small loss of paper to blank corner of title, not affecting the woodcut, small stain in blank gutter of two...

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Das Magnificat Vorteutscht und außgelegt durch D. Martinum Luther Aug. Vuittenberg. Martin Luther

Das Magnificat Vorteutscht und außgelegt durch D. Martinum Luther Aug. Vuittenberg.

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...

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De Captivitate Babylonica Ecclesiae, Praeludium Martini Lutheri. Martin Luther

De Captivitate Babylonica Ecclesiae, Praeludium Martini Lutheri.

Wittenberg: [Melchior Lotter the younger, October 6,], 1520.

Price: $50,000.00

Bound in modern boards. In a folding solander box. A truly excellent copy with crisp, clean leaves. With a fine woodcut title border by Lukas Cranach.This is the first edition of Luther’s “Prelude on The Babylonian Captivity of the Church”, the Reformer’s radical critique of the sacramental system of the...

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Eyn Brieff an die Fürsten zu Sachsen von dem auffrurischen Geyst. Wittenberg. Martin Luther

Eyn Brieff an die Fürsten zu Sachsen von dem auffrurischen Geyst. Wittenberg

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...

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Eyn Sendbriff uber die Frage. Ob auch yemant on glauben verstorben selig werden muge. An Er...

Eyn Sendbriff uber die Frage. Ob auch yemant on glauben verstorben selig werden muge. An Er Hanssen von Rechenberg zur Freystadt.

[Erfurt: Stürmer], 1523.

Price: $4,500.00

Modern boards with a stamped Luther rose. With a narrow woodcut title border. A very fresh, clean copy, with an intricate title page border. All printings are rare.Luther wrote this letter in August 1522 to Hans von Rechenberg, a strong supporter of the Reformation and a man who distinguished himself...

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Annotationes Phi. Melanchthonis, omnium eruditiss. In euangelium Matthaei pro communi...

Annotationes Phi. Melanchthonis, omnium eruditiss. In euangelium Matthaei pro communi christianismi commodo.

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...

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Ursache Warumb die gemainde und Kirchen Christi ungegrünten Concilien nit sollen stadt geben,...

Ursache Warumb die gemainde und Kirchen Christi ungegrünten Concilien nit sollen stadt geben, sonder bey der Bibel, das ist bey dem rainen Wort Gottes, festhalten und bleyben, auss Latein Ph. Mel. verdeutschet durch Justum Jonam Doct.

Regenspurg: Hans Khol, 1553.

Price: $3,500.00

Modern paste-paper boards. A very nice copy with just a few instances of light soiling.The German-language edition, translated by Justus Jonas the Elder, of Melanchthon’s “Causae quare et amplexae sint, et retinendam ducant doctrinam, quam profitentur, ecclesiae, quae Confessionem Augustae exhibitam imperatori sequuntur & quare iniquis iudicibus, collectis in synodo...

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A Christian directorie guiding men to their saluation. Deuided into three bookes. The first...

A Christian directorie guiding men to their saluation. Deuided into three bookes. The first vvherof apperteining to resolution, is only conteined in this volume, deuided into tvvo partes, and set forth novv againe vvith many corrections, and additions by th’authour him self, vvith reprofe of the corrupt and falsified edition of the same booke lately published by M. Edm. Buny. Ther is added also a methode for the vse of al; with two tables, and a preface to the reader, which is necessarie to be reade

[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...

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Der Todt ein Endt, aller yrdischen ding. Hans Sachs

Der Todt ein Endt, aller yrdischen ding.

Nürnberg: Georg Merckel, around, 1554.

Price: $4,800.00

With a large woodcut on the title page showing death (as a skeleton). A clean copy, two tiny wormholes. Bound in modern boards. The woodcut shows the man lying in his bed, death (as a skeleton) and Virtue and Vice (personified as women) flanking his bed, beneath which can be...

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Disputatio zwischen eynem Chorherren und Schuchmacher darinn das wort Gottis und ein recht...

Disputatio zwischen eynem Chorherren und Schuchmacher darinn das wort Gottis und ein recht Christlich wesen verfochten wirt.

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...

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The Defense of the Aunsvvere to the Admonition, against the Replie of T.C. By Iohn VVhitgift...

The Defense of the Aunsvvere to the Admonition, against the Replie of T.C. By Iohn VVhitgift Doctor of Diuinitie. In the beginning are added these. 4. tables. 1 Of dangerous doctrines in the replie. 2 Of falsifications and vntruthes. 3 Of matters handled at large. 4 A table generall.

London: Henry Binneman, for Humfrey Toye, 1574.

Price: $4,500.00

Bound in near-contemporary English calf with expert restorations to the hinges and extremities. Internally, this copy is in excellent condition, with only a few minor faults. The title page is finger-soiled and bears the early ownership inscription of Will. Waterson. There is a light dampstain to lower part of the...

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Artickel, so herr Vlrich Zwinly auff Dornstag vor Liechtmeß Anno. M.D.XXiij. offentlich...

Artickel, so herr Vlrich Zwinly auff Dornstag vor Liechtmeß Anno. M.D.XXiij. offentlich disputiert, vnd mit der Euangelischen warheit behalten hatt. Furschrifft eines ersamen Raths der Stat Zürich, an alle Pfarherr, Leutpriester, Seelsorger vnd Predicanten jrer herrschafft, newlich außgangen.

Erfurt(?): Michel Buchfürer, 1523.

Price: $18,000.00

Modern wrappers. A fine copy, leaves very lightly toned. Large woodcut arms on title page.The very rare (fourth?) printing of Zwingli’s Sixty-seven Articles, printed in the year of the Zurich disputation and the first Zurich edition. “The Sixty-seven Articles are the first public statement of the Reformed faith. They resemble the...

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