Apr 07, 2011 - Sale 2242

Sale 2242 - Lot 90

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
MELANCHTHON, PHILIP. A newe work co[n]cerning both partes of the sacrament to be receyved of the lay peple as wel under the kind off wine as under the kind off bread. [38] (of [40] leaves; lacks a8 (replaced in expert facsimile on laid paper) and final blank. Printed in black letter. 8vo, limp vellum with thong ties in period style by Bernard Middleton; margins trimmed entering sidenotes, title lightly soiled with blank lower outer corner restored. [Zurich: Christoph Froschauer?], 1543

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first edition in english of a treatise on the Eucharist, translated from an unidentified Latin original. STC 17793; ESTC S104249 locates 8 copies in Great Britain, only the Folger and Yale copies in the U. S.