A sammelband of 17 works in a contemporary binding

by Zwingli, Huldrych (1484-1531), et al.

$95,000 · Offered by Biblio

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Various places: various printers, 1521 to, 1524. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary half-pigskin over wooden boards, tooled in blind. The binding is well-preserved with small defects (chipping along the leading edge of the lower boards, with loss of one strap and clasp. Both catch-plates and one of the two straps are preserved.) Fine, broad-margined copies of all 17 works, many with deckled edges. With numerous historiated woodcut borders, woodcut vignettes, woodcut printer's marks, 2 large woodcut portraits (1 of Luther by Hans Baldung Grien; the second of Emperor Charles V), 2 smaller woodcut portraits (of Luther and Ulrich von Hutten), and 2 images of Christ. Seventeen works, many of them dealing with the Swiss Reformation, including a number by Huldrych Zwingli himself. The collection also includes works by two medieval writers considered forerunners of the reformation, an anonymous satire, and the apocalyptic poem "On the Christian, righteous doctrine of Doctor Martin Luther", which declares Luther to be the angel of the Book of Revelations. Contents: 1. An Account of the First Zürich Disputation (29 January, 1523) [Zwingli, Huldrych (1484-1531)] Hegenwald, Erhard (fl. 1523) Handlung der Versamlung in der loeblichen statt Zürich uff den xxix. Tag Jenners: vonn wegen des heyligen Evangelii zwischen der ersamen treffentlichen Bottschaft von Costentz: Huldrichen Zwinglii ... vor gesessnem Radt beschehen im M.D. xxiii. Jar Zürich: (Christoph Froschauer), 1523 Quarto: 44

• Publisher: various printers, 1521 to
• Year: 1524
• Binding: hardcover

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