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Melanchthon, Phillipp.
Estimate
700 - 1,000 GBP
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Description
- Operum omnium... pars prima (-quarta) [edited by Caspar Peucer]. Wittenberg: heirs of Johannes Crato, 1580-1583 (vols 3-4: Johannes Crato, 1563-1564)
4 volumes, folio (320 x 207mm.), woodcut portrait of Melanchthon on title-pages, woodcut initials, full-page woodcut portrait of Melanchthon on A5 verso of vol.2, A6 verso of vol.3 and A8 verso of vol.4, woodcut printer's device on A8 of vol.4 (otherwise blank), later vellum, spine gilt in compartments, morocco lettering-pieces, marginal paper repair to Iii6 in vol.1, occasional light browning, spines slightly rubbed
Provenance
Jo. Aug. Ernesti (1707-1781, theologian and philologist), inscription on title-page of volume 2; Bequeathed to the Bishopric of Cornwall by the Rev. Franke Parker, M.A., Rector of Luffincott, Devon, 1883, bookplate
Literature
VD16 M2337, M2338, M2334, M2335