[Rarebooks] FS: A collection of sermons by the Bishop Fabri of Vienna. Cologne: 1537

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Fabri, Johannes. SERMONES FRUCTUOSISSIMI, Cuctis Ecclesiae Catholicae 
Defensoribus, ac Doctrinae Evangelicae Professoribus... Victoria Contra Turcas... 
Patientia... Baptismo... Item, Oratio Funebris in Laudem D. Margaretae, 
Ducissae Austriae... (Cologne: Petri Quentel). 1537. First edition. Folio. 
ff.(4),cxlvii,(11). Title within a fine woodcut border made up of 16 sections 
including various views of Bishop Fabri writing his sermons. Text with a 
series of historiated woodcut initial letters. 18th century full calf, spine 
ornately gilt. Spine extremities with some old worming. Top outer corner of 
title repaired (no loss to woodcut border). A few leaves with marginal repairs 
(no loss).     $1,250.00 (trade discount allowed)
The first edition. A collection of sermons by the Bishop of Vienna, 
Johannes Fabri (1478-1541). The section on the Church's "Victories Against the 
Turks" comprises folio 57-93, in a series of 37 sermons. Adams F67, VD 16, F234. 
See CONTEMPORARIES OF ERASMUS, Volume 2, for a long biography.




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