W. S. Cotter Rare Books

HUBERINUS, Caspar

Sibenzig schlusred odder puncten von der Rechten hand Gottes und der gewalt Christi. Witemberg. 1529. [Colophon, A8r]: Gedruckt durch Joseph Klugk. [Wittenberg: Josef Klug, 1529]

Wittenberg: Josef Klug, 1529.
Caspar Huberinus, a Bavarian transplant to Augsburg, was a late but ardent supporter of Luther and the Protestant cause: Huberinus's first book, a kind of commiseration and admission of confraternity with "secret Protestants"—incipient reformers still in the closet, as it were—did not appear until 1525. The.....

Price: $1,850.00

LUTHER, Martin

Ein Predigt von den Engeln. Mart. Luth. Wittemberg. 1531. [Colophon, C4v]: Gedruckt zu Wittemberg durch Hans Lufft. M D XXXI.

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.....

Price: $2,800.00

PREUSS, Jakob

Ordnung, Namen, und Regiment Alles Kriegs volcks.

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.....

Price: $6,000.00

WALLBERG, Johann

Compendieuses natürliches Zauber-Buch, Oder Aufrichtige Entdeckung, Vieler der allerbewährtesten, nicht nur Belustigend- sondern auch Nutzen- und Gewinn- einbringender Geheimnüsse, Insbesondere denen Wein- Negotianten dienende, Samt mit eingebrachten kurtzen Discoursen Von der Goldmacherey, Zauberey, Macht und Wirkung der guten und bösen Geister in die Cörper von Gespenstern, und Benebst Einem Anhang, Der untrüglichsten, theils medicinisch, theils sympathetisch- und antipathetischer Geheimnüsse. Durch J. Wallbergen, P. C. Franckfurt and Leipzig 1745.

Frankfurt and Leipzing: 1745.
First edition of the Compendieuses natürliches Zauber-Buch (Compendium of Natural Magic), the Swabian pharmacist, brewer, and amateur magician Johann Wallberg's composite text on conjuring and the household arts, a work immediately conspicuous by its peculiar two-page, two-color title. The first part of the text is a......

Price: $2,750.00