Confessio Fidei Exhibita Inuictiss Imp Carolo V Caesari Aug In Comicijs Augustae Anno M D Xxx

by Martin Augsburg Confession Luther Philip Melanchthon

$8,500 · Offered by Liber Antiquus

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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 E5, no loss . With a historiated woodcut title border to the “Apologia”. Woodcut coat-of-arms to verso of final leaf of the “Confessio”, and fine

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