Author: AQUENSIS Matthias ( Matthias KREMER ) - Friedrich STAPHYLUS ( Friedrich STAPELLAGE ) - Eberhard BILLICK :
Title: Three anti-Lutheran works in a contamporary binding. [1] Christiana ac pia de catholicae fidei regula assertio, ...[2] Theologiae Lutheranae trimembris epitome de topicis predicamentis seu principiis theologiae Lutherane....[3] De Ratione summovendi praesentis temporis dissidia.
Description: .: 14. [1] Köln,apud Maternus Cholinus, 1556 , in-8°, (16) nn pp + 316 pp + (1)(err.) + (1)(bl). ( VD 16 K2339 ). [2] Köln, Maternus Cholinus, 1558, (36)nn pp + 136 pp. (VD 16 S8598 ) [3] Köln, apud Iasparem Gennepaeum ( Jaspar von Gennep ), 1557. LXXXVIII lvs. ( VD16 B5485 ). Three works in a contemporary binding, leather over wooden boards, with traces of brass clasps, leather with blindtooling and three large gilt lillies in the centre. Binding very worn, with loss of leather , endpapers are loose, some worming at the last leaves and the lower board ( small perpendicular galleries not interfering with legibility ). The book deserves to be restored. With 2 manuscript ex-libri on the title of the first book . F. Peleus Wolveranus ( Wolverensius ? - Wolverusius ?) ; in a somewhat later hand : '' Bibliotheca in Reilstein(?)'' - Reichstein (?). At the end of the ''Prologus ad Lectorum'' of the first publication is written in ink '' sum fr[at]is Petri Machberg Werrani. Interesting collection of three anti-Lutheran Cologne imprints dealing with the counter-reformation in Germany.. .

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