Lot 36
  • 36

Luther, Martin, Joseph Mendham, Thomas James and others

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1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • A composite volume containing 16 religious tracts, mostly sixteenth-century, comprising:
  • Paper
LUTHER, Martin. Epistola lutheriana ad Leonem Decimum summum pontificen. Dissertatio de libertate christiana per autorem recognita. [Basel: Adam Petri], (1521), 25ff. (without final blank), woodcut initials, [Benzing 759; Mendham L227], retaining paper wrapper with Dr Georg Kloss's notes on
[MENDHAM, Joseph] Detection of the sophistry by which Mr Roscoe would represent a letter of Luther as the cause and justification of the papal bull by which he was condemned in 1520. (London: James Nichols), [c. 1840], 4pp., with a note by Mendham at the end regarding his copy of Luther's Epistola, [Mendham M168]
SCHLÜSSELBURG, Conrad. Oratio de vita & morte... D. Martini Lutheri... Rostock: Stephanus Myliander, 1610, 27 leaves, [Mendham S76]
MARCELLO, Cristoforo. In quarta Lateranen[sis] Concilii sessione habita oratio iii Idus Decembris M.D.XII. (Rome: Giacomo Mazzocchi, 13 January 1513), 10 leaves, title within architectural woodcut border, [Censimento 16 CNCE 30311; Mendham M82]
SANTINI, Ippolito. Narratione de' successi intorno alla miracolosa imagine della Gloriosissima Vergine, scopertasi nella Città di Lucca l'anno 1588. Florence, [after 1588], hand-coloured woodcut on title-page, woodcut vignette at end, 12 leaves, [this edition not found in Censimento 16 or ICCU; Mendham N8]
MUSSO, Cornelio, bishop of Bitonto. Predica... fatta in Trento nella Chiesa de' Tedeschi... sopra l'Evangelio & l'Epistola della Feria. Venice: al segno del pozzo (Giovanni Griffio), 1552, woodcut device on title-page, [Censimento 16 CNCE 54033; Mendham M310], with marbled paper wrapper with title-label by van der Velde
FERRERI, Zaccaria. De reformatione ecclesia. (Venice: Giovanni Antonio and the brothers De Sabio), [1523], 12 leaves, woodcut papal arms on title-page, full-page woodcut of the author in his study, woodcut initials, [Censimento 16 CNCE 18841; Sander 2703; Mendham F51], printed marginalia slightly shaved
[MONTLUC, Jean de] Vera et brevis descriptio, tumultus postremi Gallici Lutetiani, in quo occidit Admirallius cum aliis non paucis, ab origine, sine cuiusquam iniuria facta. Cracow: Nicolaus Scharffenberg, 1573, 7 leaves, woodcut initial, [Bibliotheca Polonica 1473; Mendham M259], with marbled paper wrapper with title-label by van der Velde
[BERINGER, Joachim] Flosculi blasphemiarum jesuiticarum. [Germany], 1612, 6 leaves, papal arms on title-page, [VD17 3:653328Q; Mendham F82]
FRANCE. Extraict des registres de Parlement [about Gaspar Schoppius being condemned to be burnt]. [Paris], 24 November 1612, single sheet, [Mendham F120]
[JAMES, Thomas] Specimen corruptelarum pontificarum. London: George Miller, 1626, woodcut device on title-page, [STC 14461; Mendham J14], shaved at foot
GALESINI, Pietro. De Bibliis Graecis interpretum LXXII Sixto V... auctore editus commentarius brevis, ac dilucidus. Rome: Bartolommeo Grassi, 1587, 56pp. engraved portrait of the pope on title-page, title printed in red and black, [Censimento 16 CNCE 20212; Mendham G3], slightly foxed
BRICCIO, Giovanni. Relatione della solenne processione fatta in Roma... per la santa reliquia del cuore di S. Carlo Borromeo. Rome and Bologna: Bartolomeo Cochi, 1614, 4 leaves, woodcut portrait of Borromeo on title-page. [Mendham B398]
AUTO PUBLICO DE FEE, celebrado en la ciudad de Sevilla, Domingo 29 de Março. Seville: Francisco de Lyra, 1648, woodcut device on title-page, [Palau 19791; Mendham R346], B1 repaired, slightly browned
LISTA DE LOS PERSONES, que salieron con condenaciones, y sentencias, que se leyeron en Auto publico de Fè. (Madrid: Isidro Joseph Serrete), [1720], 4 leaves, [not found in Palau; Mendham R344]
GRANELL, Pedro. Sermon de la señora Santa Maria de Cervellon. Valencia: Jayme de Bordazar, 1693, 21 leaves, [Palau 108543; Mendham G151]

16 works in one volume, 4to (205 x 140mm.), a few works slightly smaller, nineteenth-century half calf by J. Low of Chancery Lane, lettered "Tracts 313", extremities slightly rubbed

Provenance

Luther: Dr Georg Kloss, notes on wrapper; Musso and Montluc: J.J. van de Velde, inscriptions; Auto da fee: J. Mendham, pencil inscription on title-page

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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Catalogue Note

Jean de Montluc, a diplomat for François I, was declared a heretic by Rome in 1574. This treatise of his is an apology for the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre, which took place in Paris on 24 August 1572.