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Early 16th-century collection of Lutheran works the press of Simon Corver in Zwolle,
featuring works of Wessel Gansfort and early Netherlandish reformers

GANSFORT, Wessel. De sacramento eucharistiae. Et audienda missa.
[Zwolle, Simon Corver, ca. 1521].
With:
(2) IDEM. Epistola adversus M. Engelbertum Leydensem ... et aliae epistolae. [Zwolle, S. Corver, between 30 July and the start of September 1522].
(3) IDEM. Tractatus ... De oratione & modo orandi cum luculentissima Dominicae orationis explanatione.
[Zwolle, S. Corver, ca. 1521].
(4) IDEM. Farrago ... olim uulgo dicti, rarae & reconditae doctrinae, notulae aliquot & propositiones ...
[Zwolle, S. Corver, beginning of 1522].
(5) GOCHIUS, Pupper. In divine gratie et christianae fidei, commendationem, contra falsam & Pharisaicam multorum de iustifiis & meritis operum doctrinam & gloriationem, fragmenta aliquot ... nunquam excusa.
[Zwolle, S. Corver, ca. 1521].
(6) GANSFORT, Wessel. De autoritate officio et potestate pastorum ecclesiasticorum.
[Zwolle, S. Corver, ca. 1522]. 6 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ads 1-3 and 6 with a woodcut title frame on each of the title pages and several large woodcut decorated initials. Ads 4-5 with several large woodcut decorated initials.
Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, sewn on 2 supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine. Further with brass catch- and anchor plates and one clasp, and a paper label at the head of the spine, lettered in ink referring that this is a collection of Wessel Gansforts works, dated 1520. [3536]; [32]; [4], “CX” [= XC]; [4], XCVIII; “46” [= 44 (of 46)]; [16]; [24] (belonging to ad 2) ll. Full description
€ 25,000
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Important collection of theological treatises by a forerunner of the Reformation

GANSFORT, Wessel. Farrago rerum theologicarum uberrima ... In hoc libello tractatus I. De benignissima dei providentia ... II. De causis misteriis, & effectibus dominicae incarnationis & passionis. III. De dignitate & potestaate ecclesiastica. De vera & recta obedientia. Et quantum obligent subditos mandata & statuta praelatorum. IIII. De sacramento, penitentiae, & quae sint claves ecclesiae, De potestate ligandi & solvendi. V. Quae sit vera communio sanctorum, De thesauro ecclesiae, de participatione & dispensatione huius thesauri, De fraternitatibus &c. VI. De purgatorio, quis & qualis sit ignis prugatorius. De statu & profectu animarum post hanc vitam &c.
(Colophon:) Wittenberg, [Melchior Lotter the Younger, 1522]. 4to. With an elaborate woodcut title border by Lucas Cranach the Elder. Modern blind-tooled sheepskin. [4], LXXXVI ll. Full description
€ 5,000
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Rare first Deventer edition of an immensely popular confessional handbook for priests in the Low Countries

[GARLANDIA, Johannes de, or Petrus BLESENSIS]. Libellus de modo confitendi et penitendi. [= Modus poenitendi = Poeniteas cito].
[colophon:] Deventer, [Richard Pafraet], 20 December 1488. 4to. The text opens with a 6-line blue lombardic initial supplied in manuscript. Text set in one column in a rotunda gothic type with the headings in a larger textura gothic. 19th-century marbled paper over boards, blue paper spine label lettered in gold, preserved in a 20th-century orange cloth box from the St. Matthias' Abbey in Trier. [25] ll. Full description
€ 15,000
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First edition of an early Reformation pamphlet: Johann Eberlin von Günzburgs Bundesgenossen VI, referencing Erasmus

[EBERLIN VON GÜNZBURG, Johann]. Erasmus von Rotherodam ein fürst aller gelerten zu unseren zyte[n], schreibt im buch gena[nn]t Encomion morias, vom predigen der ba[e]ttel münch. Ein jeden ich hie früntlich bit, Das er mich la[e]ss und lach nit. Der. VI. bundtsgnosz.
[Basel, Pamphilus Gengenbach, 1521]. 4to. With 1 large woodcut portrait of Erasmus on the title page, 2 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut tailpiece below the end of the text. Modern marbled calf. [5] [1 blank] ll. Full description
€ 4,500
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First edition of a collection of patristic writings, including Eucherius, Basil, and Jerome, with annotations by Erasmus

EUCHERIUS; Desiderius ERASMUS; Basil of CAESAREA; Petrus GERARDUS (editor). In hoc libello haec in sunt ... Intelligentiae spiritalis formulae: Instructionum libri duo ... epistola paraenetica, ad Valerianum suum ...
(Colophon:) Paris, Claude Chevallon, [ca. 1523]. 8vo. With Cevallons woodcut device on the verso of the final leaf, the title is printed in red and black, and 10 woodcut decorated initials. Modern half vellum and beige paper sides, blue sprinkled head- and fore-edge, manuscript author and title on the spine in brown ink. [6], CVII, [1] ll. Full description
€ 2,950
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Rare edition printed under the patronage of Erardus de Marcha, prince-bishop of Liège

[GERSON, Jean]. Opus tripartitu[m] Tractans de preceptis. De confessione et de arte bene moriendi.
(Colophon: Antwerp, Michael Hillen van Hoochstraten), [ca. 1512]. 4to. With a large woodcut on the title page, the title printed in red and black, and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Later vellum, red edges. [16] ll. Full description
€ 4,500
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Defending Erasmus against the accusations of Archbishop Edward Lee

GERTOPHIUS, Johannes and Hermann von dem BUSCHE. Recriminatio ... adversus furiosissimum Sycophantam Edoardum Leum Anglum, qui ausus est primus Erasmum candidissimum luto aspergere. Epigramma extemporale sed felicissimu[m], Hermanni Buschii, in eundem Leum.
[Basel], (colophon:) Andreas Cratander, June 1520. 4to. With an elaborate woodcut title border, a decorated woodcut initial, and a woodcut printer's device on the final page. Modern quarter vellum in older style. 25, [3] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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First Dutch translation of the principal source of information
about the horrors of the recently introduced "Spanish Inquisition"

GONSALVIUS MONTANUS, Reginaldus [= CORRO, Antonio del?]. Der heyliger Hispanischer inquisitie, etlicke listighe secrete consten ende practijcken, ontdect ende int licht ghebracht ...
[Emden, Willem Gailliart], 1569. 8vo. With woodcut decorated initials. (Near-) contemporary vellum wrappers, sewn on 3 supports (previously laced through the joints). [4], "143" [= 132], [1] ll. Full description
€ 12,500
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Marking the brief golden age of Christianity in the Arabian peninsula

GREGENTIUS, Saint. [Title in Greek followed by:] Disputatio cum Herbano Iudaeo: nunc primùm Graecè edita, cum interpretatione Nic. Gulonii, Carnutis, literarum Graecarum professoris regii, notis illustrata. Hoc dialogo sides Christiana tum divinorum oraculorum exposition, tum miraculorum effectu confirmatur.
Paris, Fédéric Morel, 1586. 8vo. With text in Latin and Greek on facing pages. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. [8], 204 ll. Full description
€ 6,500
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