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Book number: 54153

Luthers katholisches Monument oder Kritische Betrachtung verschiedene Urtheile katholischer oder unter Katholiken gerechneter Schriftsteller über Luther und seine Reformation von einem Wahrheitsfreunde. ("Historisch-kritische Versuche zur Beleuchtung der Reformation Luthers, I").

(Doller, J. L.? or H. Windischmann?)

In der Andreäischen Buchhandlung, Frankfurt am Main, 1817

€ 200,00

8vo (20x12 cm). Contemporary boards; spine with morocco title-label; boards covered with marbled paper (top spine damaged; first hinge marbled paper teared). Page iii-xvi (half-title missing), 414 pp.(Paper age-toned and with some light-brown spots; 2 different convent-stamps Jesuits) and 1 convent-label (Jesuits) on endpapers, 1 stamp repeated on title). - From the contents: "Von Katholiken errichteten Monumente", "Haben Sie ihre eigenen Materialien dazu verwendet?", "Waren diese Männer auch noch Katholiken" & 6 "Anhänge". - Schoolprize in handwriting on first endpaper for "Winandus van Ham ex Grave (N.Br., the Netherlands), Moguntia 1826". - Interesting copy with 2 plates: woodcuts with grotesque monsters, broadsides (see the first pulbished 1523) of Lutherean caricature: 1) "Der Bapstesel zu Rom" (Pope) and "Das Munchkalb zu freyberg" (Monk-calf). - Copies with the 2 woodcuts extremely rare.