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Lot 908 | ADAMUS, Melchior (1575-1622). Decades duae continentes vitas theologorum exterorum
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ADAMUS, Melchior (1575-1622). Decades duae continentes vitas theologorum exterorum principum. Frankfurt: Nikolaus Hoffmann for Jonas Rosa, 1618. 8 o. Printer's woodcut device on title. Contemporary vellum (lower portion of binding renewed). Provenance: Cardinal's coat-of-arms dated 1724 (stamped in red ink on title). FIRST EDITION. STC/German 17th-century A-142. - [Bound with]: ADAMUS. Vitae Germanorum medicorum. [Frankfurt]: Johann Georg Geyder for the widow of Jonas Rosa, 1620. Printer's woodcut device on title. FIRST EDITION. STC/German 17th-century A-147.
ADAMUS. Vitae Germanorum philosophorum. Frankfurt: Widow of Jonas Rosa, 1663. 8 o. Woodcut printer's device on title. Contemporary vellum. Provenance: Canton de Boussieres (library stamp on title); Grauel (signature, dated 1731 on front free endpaper); C.Fleury (signature, dated 1841 on front free endpaper). Later edition. STC/German 17th-century A-149.
Three biographical dictionaries of theologians, philosophers and doctors. Adamus is best known for his biography of Martin Luther, The Life and Death of Dr. Martin Luther.... which was published in an English edition in London, 1641. (2)
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