De ecclesia Christi. Itemque de ecclesia Romana, quae est Catholicorum; et de reformata, quae est Lutheranorum & Calvinistarum.
8vo. 247, (1) pp.
(Bound with) II: The same. Apologia pro iudice controversiarum fidei ac religionis. Ibid., 1617. 172 pp., 2 bl. ff., 391, (1) pp. Without the folding plate bound with at least one known copy.
(Bound with) III: The same. Libellus de invocatione Sanctorum. Ibid., 1617. 164 pp.
(Bound with) IV: The same. Epistola [...] ad D. Davidem Pareum theologum Heidelbergensem de actis colloquiorum Swalbacensium, & defide haereticis servanda. Ibid., 1619. (4), 81, (1) pp. Contemp. dark green vellum with ms. spine label. Traces of ties.
$652.00
Sammelband containing four rare controversial treatises by the Brabant Jesuit Martin Becanus (i. e., Verbeeck or Van der Beeck, c. 1561-1624), who taught theology at Würzburg, Mainz, and Vienna. I: First edition. II: Variant of the first edition with expanded first part (only one copy listed in VD 17 [Wolfenbüttel]; this contains an engraving, while the shorter variant is not illustrated). III: Rare second edition; not in VD 17. IV: First edition of this polemic against the Heidelberg protestant theologian David Pareus (1548-1622).
Contemporary ms. ownership notes and stamps of St. Michael's College in Vienna. Slightly browned throughout; altogether nicely preserved.
I: VD 17, 12:107975X. De Backer/Sommervogel I, 1103f., 41.
II: VD 17, 23:647113Y. De Backer/S. I, 1104, 45.
III: De Backer/S. I, 1104, 43. Not in VD 17; cf. VD 17, 23:241132U (1617 ed. with diff. collation).
IV: VD 17, 23:678518X. De Backer/S. 1104f., 47.
