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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.
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.
Antimelancholicus, Oder Melancholey-Vertreiber. 4 parts. - [RECOMMENDED BY JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH]
Leipzig, Fritsch, 1694 & 1698. 8vo. Uniformly bound in two contemporary full calf bindings with four raised bands and richly gilt spines. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Light wear to extremities. Parts of gilting on spine worn off. Head of spine on vol. 2 chipped. Internally nice and clean. (14), 1223, (33) pp. + frontispiece (28), 870, (8), 730, (50) pp. + frontispiece.
Later edition of Pfeiffer’s extensive work on how to find consolation and support in the bible. The work is especially noteworthy and gained fame in the mid 18th century because of composer Johann Sebastian Bach who wrote the title of the present work as a recommendation in his manuscript notebook “Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach” which he presented to his second wife, Anna Magdalena: “They [the book-titles] were inserted there not by accident or for a fancy, but indicate his [Bach] particular liking for the books, of which the purport was to be reflected in the content of the little music book”. (Spitta, Bach)
Critica sacra, de sacri Codicis partitione, editionibus variis, linguis originalibus & illibata puritate Fontium, interpretatione Scripturae legitima, nec non eiusdem translatione in Linguas totius universi, de Masora & Kabbala, Talmude denique & Alco...
Altorf Noricor., Vestneri, 1751. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt spine. Engraved frontispiece. (14),480,(16) pp., 18 engraved plates. Clean and fine.
