‎PFEIFFER, AUGUST.‎
‎Gazophylacion Evangelicum: Evangelische Schatz-Kamer allwo bey denen Sonntaglichen wie auch Haupt-Fest-Evangelien.‎

‎Nurnberg, C.S. Froberg, 1686. 4to. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Traces from old paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities, a few scratches to board. Annotations in contemporary hand to recto of frontispiece. Last few leaves with worm-tract and miscolouring, but generally a nice and clean copy. (18), 540, 464, (6) pp. + frontispiece and engraved halftitle. With numerous circular emblems in the text. ‎

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‎The exceedingly rare first edition of Pfeiffer’s collection of sermons illustrated with numerous small circular emblems. August Pfeiffer (1640 - 1698) was a German Lutheran theologian, Orientalist and Superintendent of the city of Lübeck.After studying in Hamburg and Wittenberg, he held various academic and pastoral positions, including in Medzibor and Stroppen before returning to Saxony and later serving in Leipzig and Lübeck. Pfeiffer was a prolific writer, with works ranging from polemics to scholarly works on biblical exegesis and hermeneutics.‎