Lot 646

Melancthon, Philip

Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographss | 10 May 2007
£1,320
Description
Omnium operum … Pars prima [pars quarta] … Wittemberg: excudebat Iohannes Crato, 1562-64. 4 volumes, folio, woodcut portrait of Melancthon within a border on each title-page, full page woodcut portrait and beautiful woodcut of the Trinity at the end of the index in volume four, woodcut initials, final leaf of the dedicatory leaf supplied in Ms., contemporary blind stamped and roll tooled vellum over wooden boards, lacking clasps, covers rubbed and wormed, inner joints split, a number of single worm holes mostly at the start and end of each volume, some leaves discoloured (4)
Footnote
Note: Adams M1068; BM STC German Books p.608.
