Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 83

Price Realized: $ 162
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
[LYSER, JOHANN.] Polygamia Triumphatrix; id est, Discursus Politicus de Polygamia. Auctore Theophilo Aletheo, cum notis Athanasii Vincentii [pseuds.]. [10], 565, [33] pages. 4to, 200x153 mm, contemporary sheep, worn, with surface flaw on front cover, spine ends crudely reinforced at an early date; contents generally clean. Biographical note about the author signed J. F. Reimmann and dated Hildesheim 1724 on the title. Lund [i. e., Amsterdam]: Sumptibus Authoris, 1682

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Definitive version of Lyser's controversial defense of polygamy on scriptural grounds, revised and expanded from his earlier writings on the subject. Gay-Lemonnyer III, 842.