Enchiridion militis Christiani, saluberrimis praeceptis refertum... cui accessit noua, mireque utilis Praefatio.Strassburg, (Colophon:) Johann Knobloch, April 1523. With:(2) ERASMUS, Desiderius. De immensa Dei misericordia ... Virginis et martyris comparatio per eundem. Nunc primum et condita et edita.Including: ERASMUS, Desiderius. Virginis et martyris comparatio.[Nürnberg, Johann Petreius, 1524].(3) ERASMUS, Desiderius. De libero arbitrio diatribè, sive Collatio.[Nuremberg, Johann Petreius, 1524].(4) HENRY VIII, King of England. Assertio septem sacramentoru[m] aduersus Martin. Lutherum, aedita ab invictissimo Angliae & Franciae rege, & do. Hyberniae Henrico eius nominis octavo..[Mainz, Johann Schöffer, 1522?]. 4 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1 with a woodcut frame on the title page, 1 woodcut decorated initial, and Knobloch’s large woodcut device on the verso of the last blank leaf. Ads 2 and 3 with 1 woodcut decorated initial each. Ad 4 with a woodcut architectural frame on the title page and 1 large woodcut decorated initial. Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, remnants of brass anchor plates.
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106; [57], [1 blank]; [49], [1 blank] ll.;158 pp.Four significant early 16th-century works that illuminate the intellectual and theological tensions of the Reformation. Ad 1: The Enchiridion militis christiani (“Poinard of the Christian Knight”), one of Erasmus’ most influential…