Andreae Wecheli

Rare first edition. Text in two columns. Very fine printer's device on the title page and at the colophon.
Contemporary full vellum binding, smooth spine with pen-and-ink title, some stains on boards.
Some worming without touching the text as well as scattered dampstains.
Originally from Hesse, Calvin was professor of jurisprudence at the University of Heidelberg as well as a compiler and author of manuals on politics, Roman law and Mosaic law.

New edition, the very first edition having appeared in 1530. Printer's device on title page. Two other different parts, with continuous pagination, with two respective title pages: Meditationes graecanicae in artem grammaticam (p.273) and In Clenardi et ante signani grammaticam anno MDLXXXX ex officina Wecheliana editam.
Contemporary full vellum binding. Smooth spine with blind fillets. Blind frames on boards with a central fleuron and corner fleurons. The work is completely detached from the binding. The first cover is largely detached from its board. First gathering loose, held only by one stitch. Paper entirely browned.
Famous work which enjoyed immense popular success of this...

Second edition copiously expanded with numerous texts on the Turks and Persians, following the first edition published in 1583. A rare edition, preferable to the first for its multiple additions. Printer's device on title page.
Bound in full marbled brown sheep, later 17th century. Spine with raised bands, decorated. Beige morocco title label. Upper joint split and open at head. A pale dampstain to the lower third of pages throughout the volume. Numerous leaves browned, unfortunately typical of German and Swiss paper from this period. Final leaf bearing the printer's device partly detached.
History of Persia from Antiquity to the Ottoman Empire up to 1581. This precious history is...