Description:
Wietrowski, Maximilan (1660-1757) Historia de Haeresi Lutherana in Compendium Reducta et Tomis Duobus Comprehensa. Prague: Carolus Joannes Hraba, 1724. Folio, two volumes bound together, including the same author's Historia de Haeresi Calvinia, Prague: Hraba, 1725; ex libris the Ettal Abbey, a defunct Benedictine monastery in Bavaria, bound in full contemporary speckled calf, with two different gilt lozenge-shaped tools naming the abbey, one depicting the Madonna and Child, the other showing two cherubs upholding a bishop's mitre and sceptre floating around a ship's anchor, spine tooled in gilt compartments with a pale leather label, in rather good shape, top cap chipped, some worming, contents with toning, 12 x 8 in.
Estimate $200-300
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