[Rarebooks] FS: Biographies of the Key Figures of the Protestant Reformation w/50 portrait by Hondius

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Verheiden, Jacobus. AF-BEDDINGEN VAN SOMMIGHE IN GODTS-WOORT ERVARENE MANNEN , die Bestreden Hebben den Roomschen Antichrist... S'Graven-Haghe: Beuckel Corneliszoon Nieulandt. 1603. 4to. ff.(12),147,(1). With the final leaf of colophon with a large printer's device. Title within a fine copper engraved border, 50 full-page engraved portraits by Heinrich Hondius, and one additional plate. 19th century full red calf, with blind tooled borders, nicely rebacked.    $1,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
The first Dutch edition, after the Latin edition of 1602. The text contains 50 biographies of the most celebrated figures of the Protestant Reformation, with a fine portrait of each, including Wyclif, Erasmus,
 Luther, Melanchthon, John Knox, Calvin, etc., etc. The great printer Robert Estienne is included. Simoni, BOOKS FROM THE LOW COUNTRIES, 1601-1621. V158.

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