Conring, Hermann. De electione Urbani IIX et Innocentii X pontificum commentarii historici duo.

Helmstedt, Henning Müller, 1651.

4to. 2 pts. (48), 135, (1), 44 pp.

(Bound with) II: The same. Defensio ecclesiae protestantium adversum duo pontificiorum argumentis. Ibid., 1654. 120 pp.

(Bound with) III: The same. Historia electionis Alexandri VII Papae. Ibid., 1657. 3 pts. 56, 23, (1), 3-117, (1) pp. With repeated woodcut devices. Marbled Austrian half calf (c. 1700) with giltstamped spine label. All edges sprinkled in red.

 400.00

Collection of three works of church history by Hermann Conring (1606-81), professor of medicine and philosophy at Helmstedt and one of the last great polymaths (cf. LThK III, 35). I: One of three printings in the year of the first edition; II und III: first editions. About bulls, conclaves, etc.

Somewhat browned, insignificant worming at beginning and end. Spine-ends damaged. From the library of the Vienna Discalced Augustinians with their ms. shelfmarks.

References

I: VD 17, 12:116684D.

II: VD 17, 12:115494V.

III: VD 17, 3:008223P.

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