‎"JERMIN, MICHAEL. (MICHAEL GERMAN).‎
‎A commentary upon the whole booke of Ecclesiastes or the Preacher (...).‎

‎London, Hodgkinsonne, for John Clark, 1639. Folio. In contemporary full calf binding. Blind-tooled framed to boarders of board. Small paper-label pasted on to top of board. Light wear, soiling and a few holes to boards. Fine woodcut initials. Occssional light marginal miscolouring, but an overall good copy. (6), 457, (22) pp.‎

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‎Rare first edition of Jermin’s (or German’s) commentaries on various religious subjects. ""Michael German (1591 - 1659), born in 1591 at Knows, Devonshire, was the son of Alexander Jermin, merchant and sheriff of Exeter, of which place his grandfather was twice mayor. He matriculated at the age of fifteen at Exeter College, Oxford, 20 June 1606, was elected a scholar of Corpus Christi College 23 Sept. 1608, and a probationer fellow 25 April 1615, graduating B.A. 12 Oct. 1611 and M.A. 24 Jan. 1615. On leaving Oxford he went abroad as chaplain to Princess Elizabeth, electress palatine, and proceeded D.D. at Leyden. He was again in England by 1624"" on 27 July graduated D.D. at Oxford, and was made chaplain to Charles I in the same year. In 1628 he became rector of St. Martin's, Ludgate, suffered much for the royal cause when the civil war broke out, and was ejected from his living in favour of Thomas Jacombe [q. v.] His property was taken from him, and he was obliged to live on the charity of fellow-royalists. He retired about 1652 to his son-in-law's house at Kemsly, near Sevenoaks, and died suddenly, 14 Aug. 1659, while returning from preaching at Sevenoaks. He was buried north of the altar at Kemsly, where a marble monument was raised over his grave. Wood describes him as a pious and laborious man."" (DNB).‎