[REFORMATION; EARLY BINDINGS]

TWO WORKS IN ONE VOLUME

Epigrammatum by 

Philip Melanchthon 

(Wittenberg, 1579)

Together with:

Poemata by

Georg Sabinus

(Leipzig, 1589)

FINE EARLY GERMAN 

DATED BINDING

1602

Melanchton, Philip. Epigrammatum, Wittenberg: haeredes Johannes Cratonis, 1579. [Bound after:] Sabinus, George. Poemata, et numero librorum, et aliis aditis aucta, et emendatius denuo edita. Leipzig: haeredes Joannis Steinmanni, 1589. 

Octavo [App. 7 x 4 in.]  

Two works in one volume

Contemporary German pigskin tooled in blind, featuring the heads of the Reformers with a large pictorial block of a biblical scene to each cover (Jacob's Ladder to front). The binding is prominently dated and has the initials of its original owner. 

Early ink annotations in manuscript to the front free endpaper, the title-page of Melanchthon and a few pages in Sabinus. [Adams M1134 & S32] 

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