Loci Praecipui Theologici.

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Lot 56

MELANCHTHON, PHILIP.

Loci Praecipui Theologici.

Third edition. Portrait of author on title. Marginalia throughout. Lengthy Latin inscription on the first three pages before title, referencing Reformation-era works and doctrines. Browned, lower blank portion of title removed. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, clasps and hinges (one lacking). 8vo.

Wittenberg: Johannes Crato von Krafftheim 1559

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $450

Melanchthon was the Christian intellectual, who along with Luther and Calvin molded the Protestant Reformation. This 1559 edition of Melanchthon’s magnum opus is regarded as the most thorough.