Nov 12, 2013 - Sale 2330

Sale 2330 - Lot 22

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
BALE, JOHN. The Apology of Johan Bale against a ranke Papyst, aunswering both hym and hys doctours, that neyther their vowes nor yet their priesthode are of the Gospell, but of Antichrist. 156 [i. e., 157], [3] leaves. Printed in black letter. 8vo, 139x92 mm, old limp vellum, recased with lower portion of spine and rear cover restored, endpapers renewed; dampstain in lower blank margins in second half of volume, bottom edge of last several leaves restored. H. P. Kraus booklabel. London: John Day, 1550

Additional Details

first edition of a condemnation of the vow of chastity. The author (1495-1563) was an English reformer and controversialist. STC 1275.