Lot 42
  • 42

Luther, Martin

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Description

  • Luther, Martin
  • Six contemporary tracts by and about Luther in one volume, 1520-1521, comprising:
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Condemnatio doctrinalis librorum Martini Lutheri, per quosdam magistros nostros Lovanienses, & Colonienses, facta. Responsio Lutheriana ad eandem condemnationem. Wittenberg: Melchior Lotter, 1520, FIRST EDITION, title within woodcut border by Hans Cranach [Johnson 75], 16 ff., [Benzing 627; Mendham L192; VD16 L2341], slightly stained
Adversus execrabilem Antichristi Bullam. Wittenberg: [Melchior Lotter], 1520, FIRST EDITION, 10 ff., woodcut initial, [Benzing 724; Mendham L223; VD16 L3723], inscription of Bernhard Adelmann (of Eichstätt, 1457-1523, who also owned another Mendham book, lot 76 from our sale, 5 June 2013, Mendham R416)
Determinatio secunda alme facultatis Theologie Parisien[sis] super apologiam Philippi Melanchthonis pro Luthero scriptam. [Wittenberg: Johann Rhau-Grunenberg], 1521, 10ff. (last leaf blank), [Mendham P36; VD16 D655]
NESEN, Wilhelm. Epistola de magistris nostris Lovaniensibus, quot, & quales sint, quibus debemus magistralem illam damnationem Lutherianam. Item Via S. Nicolai, sive stultitiae exemplar. [Strassburg: Johann Schott], 1521, 16 ff., with nineteenth-century paper wrapper titled by Dr Georg Kloss, with his note "Panzerum latuit", [Mendham E70; VD16 N538]
[ZWINGLI, Ulrich] Suggestio deliberandi super propositione Hadriani pontificis Romani Nerobergae facta ad principes Germaniae a quodam ingenue tum in commune Reip. Christianae, tum provatim Germaniae favente, scripta. [Zurich: Christoph Froschauer], 1522, 4 ff., [Mendham S366; Vischer C26; VD16 Z897]
[MELANCHTHON, Philipp] Determinatio theologicae facultatis Parisien. super doctrina Lutherana hactenus per eam visa. Apologia pro Luthero adversus Decretum Parisiensiusm. Wittenberg: [Melchior Lotter], 1521, 20 ff., [VD16 ZV 12176], signature in red ink of Georgius Drossers on title-page, with his markings in red ink and the date 5 October 1526 at end

6 works in one volume, 4to (188 x 137mm.), nineteenth-century roan-backed boards, both boards detached

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