De ecclesiae autorita/tate sic! & de veterum scriptis libellus

by Philip Melanchthon

$5,500 · Offered by Liber Antiquus

First edition

FIRST EDITION, VARIANT, with a correction for a passage on leaf G5v printed above the colophon. Bound in modern boards, overlaid with a printed leaf. A very good copy with deckled edges in gatherings A, B, and E. Elaborate woodcut initials, attractive architectural title page border, early minor annotations, very light occ. browning to edges, D3 with a clean tear, minor damp to margins of final 2 gatherings.

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