Georg Scherer - De Luytersche Bedelaers Mantel - 1650

SCHERER (Georg)

The Luthersche Bettler Mantel: Midtsgaders a further refutation against two Lutheran preachers, named Iacob Gerbrandsz. and Alexander Utzinger...
[The mantle of the Lutheran beggars: moreover, a refutation against two Lutheran preachers, named Iacob Gerbrandsz. and Alexander Utzinger...].

Brussels, Ian Mommaert, in de Druckery, 1650.

1 volume in-12 (16 x 10 cm), vellum (period binding), [viii]-578-[22] pages (complete). Signs of use to the binding with a small leather loss on the back, some pale angular damp stains (not serious). Condition acceptable

The work is a Dutch translation of a satirical pamphlet first published in 1588 in German entitled Der Lutherische Bettler Mantel.

Georg Scherer, famous Austrian Jesuit priest and court preacher in Vienna. He was a major figure of the Catholic Counter-Reformation in the Habsburg territories.

Good copy