Compendium Concertationis huius seculi sapientium [...].

8vo: [3]-148-[4] pp. (sm. wormholes in first and last lvs., toned, occ. foxing).

Cont. vellum (rebacked, title on edges in ink).

Very rare edition of the main work of Jan van den Bundere (1481-1557), born at Ghent, professor of theology in the Dominican Order and Inquisitor of the diocese of Tournai. His activities were especially directed against the Lutherans and Anabaptists. The "Compendium" is dedicated to Gerard Cuelsbroeck, abbot of S. Peter's at Ghent. It is written in the form of an extensive dialogue between a heretic and a Catholic theologian and is considered an important work in the history of the Counter-Reformation. This edition also contains a copious index. Woodcut printer's mark "Spes" on title page. Ref. Machiels B-1087. - Not in Adams. Prov. 2 libr. stamps. Joined: Cochlaeus, Johannes - Defensio Ceremoniarum Ecclesiae aduersus errores & calumnias [...]. Ingolstad, A. Weissenhorn, 1544. 4to: 78 pp. (some waterstaining, marg. wormhole at the end). Half calf, 19th-cent. marbl. boards, gilt spine (sl. rubbed). Cochlaeus (1479-1552) was a German humanist who defended the Catholic chrurch against early protestant criticisms and Reformers. Ref. VD 16 C 4288. - Not in Adams. Prov. "frs. Adriani Diestensis et Amicorum Anno 1585". - "frs. Petri Bunnei eius napotis frs. Augistin van Dyck 1632" (ownership entries on title). (2 vol.)