J. Sleidanus - Commentariorum de statu religionis et reipublicae, Carolo quinto Caesare, libri XXVI - 1560

J. Sleidanus

Commentaries on the state of religion and the republic, by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 26 books.

They offer a publication printed in Strasbourg, by the publisher T. Rihel, from around 1560, with a woodcut printer's mark.

Collation: 8 vols., 872 pages, 10 vols.

Bound in a blind embossed full leather binding of the period, heavily rubbed, corners slightly worn, front cover with a worm trail.

VD 16, ZV 33840; van der Vekene, Sleidan E/a 20C. - One of many variants of the octave edition at Rihel.

CONDITION: Good copy with signs of use, browned inside, lightly finger-marked, with some small ink spots, ownership marks on the inner cover, front free endpaper removed. The first and last pages show minor worm traces at the edges. The verso of the title page bears a stamp and a deaccession stamp.