Paris: Robert Estienne, 1568. Octavo, 159 x 97 x 1 mm; A4, [8] pp. Binding of old, heavy, fawn paper wraps, slightly worn. Leaves toned, small hole in tail gutter margin, not near text, evidence of guarding to gutter margins. At one time a member of a Sammelband; ink numbering.....

Cologne: 1558.
First published in two books in 1549, and enlarged to three in 1552, Dedekind's elegiac poem concerns a certain St. Grobian, a personage first envisioned half a century before by Sebastian Brant as a the patron saint of coarse manners. In Dedekind's satiric masterpiece, St. Grobian teaches students.....

Wittenberg: Hans Lufft, 1531.
Luther's sermon on angels, preached on the occasion of Michaelmas, 29 September 1530, was ostensibly about the Archangel Michael and the divine college of angels' reverence for God in Matthew 18.10, but the substance of the sermon was actually about fallen angels, in particular the Devil.....

Strasbourg: Christan Egenolff the Elder, 1530.
First edition of perhaps the first manual on warfare written and published specifically in preparation for Reformation-related conflict. Jakob Preuss was chief military advisor to John Frederick I, later Elector of Saxony and incipient coleader of the highly ambitious Schmalkaldic League, a military alliance.....

Strasbourg: Remy Guedon, 1547.
In 1542, by order of the Strasbourg City Council, Johann Winter von Andernach, physician to François Ier and professor of anatomy at the Faculté de Medecine de Paris, composed his De victus ed medicinae ratione cum alio tum pestilentiae tempore observanda commentarius, a compact work on.....