MELANCHTHON, PHILIPP (1497-1560). Ph. Melanchthonis epistolarum liber, Continens praeclata multa cum ecclesiastica tum politica & historica cognitione dignissima, Antehac nunquam Editus.

Ph. Melanchthonis epistolarum liber, Continens praeclata multa cum ecclesiastica tum politica & historica cognitione dignissima, Antehac nunquam Editus.

Lugduni Batavorum, Ex Officina Bonaventura & Abraham Elzevir, 1647. Cont.vellum, sl. soiled. Titlepage in red and black with printer's mark, (24), 518 pp. 8vo. Latin. Previous owner's bookplate on upper paste down (John Percival Baron of Burton in the County of Cork in Ireland, 1715). Some marginal pencil markings. Overall in good condition.

* First edition of unknown letters of Melanchthon, published by Ludwig Camerarius, grandson of Joachim Camerarius, Melanchthon’s biographer. In this edition 196 letters to the Nuremberg patrician H. Baumgärtner and letters to Martin Bucer, Calvin and many others.

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