Item #MOR.6.074b HISTORIA DER AUGSPURGISCHEN CONFESSION: wie sie erstlich berahtschlagt verfasset und Keiser Carolo V. ubergeben ist sampt andern reli=gions Handlungen, so sich dabey auff dem Reichs=tag zu Augspurg, anno M.D. XXX. zu=getragen. David Chytraeus.

HISTORIA DER AUGSPURGISCHEN CONFESSION: wie sie erstlich berahtschlagt verfasset und Keiser Carolo V. ubergeben ist sampt andern reli=gions Handlungen, so sich dabey auff dem Reichs=tag zu Augspurg, anno M.D. XXX. zu=getragen

Georg Raben: Frankfurt, 1580. Limited by Antiquity. Hardcover. Good. Item #MOR.6.074b

Limited by Antiquity. A very early edition of this work apparently published only three years earlier. Full calf. 18.8 cm x 14.5 cm. Pagination: blank (4), t-p (with illustration)/verso blank, Preface (Vorrede) (6), (382 numbered pages with versos to same unnumbered, page 319 repeated in pagination as per other copies this edition, publisher's page with illustration/verso blank, blank (1). Condition: front joint broken but hinge still tight. Worn head/tail of spine & corners. General wear. On front blank is a 1792 gift inscription. There is an old signature on the title page. A theological encyclopedia calls Chytraeus "The last of the 'Fathers of the Lutheran Church'" & says it "was the first special work on a part of this period based on original sources." This edition was printed in the year of the 50th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession. Rare. Several copies of this edition in world libraries.

Price: $500.00

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