Author: SLEIDANUS Johannes ( 1506 ? - 1556 ) :
Title: De Statu Religionis, et Reipublicae, Carolo quinto, Caesare, Commentarii. Additus est Liber XXVI . Quid praeterea huic editioni acceserit, lectoribus, qui perculum feceriat, iudicandum relinquianus. (Bound with) De Quatuor summis imperiis, Babylonico, Persico, Graeco, & Romano, Libri tres.
Description: .: S.L. ( Genève ), Excudebat Conradus Badius, 1559., format in-12° ( 12 x 8,2 cm). [1] 458 lvs + 14 lvs (index) (complete) ; [2] 50 lvs + 6 lvs (index) (complete). Both titles with the same woodengraved vignet, this copy entirely ruled with double red ink lines. Bound in 18th c. full calf. Binding with severe traces of use: top end of spine missing (ca. 1 cm), outer joints partly broken (binding still solid), Traces of worming in lower cover,with some loss of leather. Notwithstanding these binding defects still a good copy with a fine interior, solid bookblock, no stains, finely ruled. Title page with two manuscript ex-libris (proabably conteporary, but illegible). First posthumous edition of Sleidanus' important work on the history of the Reformation. In this edition was added a 26th book. The first edition of this work was published in 1555; one year before his death. The 1559 edition is printed in Badius' famous extremely small printing types.(See for item [1] Gilmont nr.2126 ; USTC N° 450490 ; for item [2] Gilmont nr. 2124 ; USTC N° 450488.. .

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