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RL 1025 (Wittenberg) 700 Jahre Wittenberg: Stadt, Universität, Reformation. Im Auftrag der Lutherstadt Wittenberg.
Herausgegeben von Stefan Oehmig. Weimar: Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Nachfolger Weimar, 1995, 604 pages, bib, index, illus. Few inoffensive pencil notes in text, very good copy in good dust jacket.
Partial Contents:
Urkunde des Herzogs Albrecht II. von Sachsen und seiner Gemahlin Agnes für die Bürger von Wittenberg vom 28. Juni 1293 / Michael Lindner. -- Wittenberg vor 1547. Vom Landstädtchen zur Weltgeltung / Karlheinz Blaschke. -- Kirche und Theologie in Wittenberg / Helmar Junghans. -- Die Entwicklung Wittenbergs zur Lutherstadt. Das preussische Jahrhundert 1817-1917 / Martin Treu. -- Zur Bedeutung des Wittenberger Denkmalbestandes / Peter Findeisen. -- Freiheit. Ein Problem der Deutschen und Martin Luthers / Peter Blickle. -- Reformation. Die Wittenberger Bewegung 1521/22 und ihre Folgen im Lichte alter und neuer Fragestellungen. Ein Beitrag zum Thema (Territorial-) Stadt und… Read More

RL 1020 Anabaptistes et dissidents au XVIe siècle: actes du Colloque international d'histoire anabaptiste du XVIe siècle tenu à l'occasion de la XIe Conférence mennonite mondiale à Strasbourg, juillet 1984 = 16th century anabaptism and radical reformation: proceedings of the International Colloquium on History of 16th century anabaptism held on the occasion of the XIth Mennonite World Conference at Strasbourg, July 1984 = Täufertum und radikale Reformation im 16. Jahrhundert: Akten des internationalen Kolloquiums für Täufergeschichte des 16. Jahrhunderts gehalten in Verbindung mit der XI. Mennonitischen Weltkonferenz in Strassburg, Juli 1984. (Series Title: Bibliotheca dissidentium. Scripta et studia ; no 3.) Edited by Jean-Georges Rott & Simon L. Verheus. Baden-Baden & Bouxwiller: Editions Valentin Koerner, 1987, 494 pages, notes, index, illus. Paperbound, very good

Germany 3076 Rumbold, Horace, Sir. The Austrian court in the nineteenth century. With eighteen illustrations. Second edition. London: Methuen & Company, 1909, x, 383p, index, illus, pub ads. Very nice and bright copy of a handsome book. Bound in blue cloth and gilt illustration and lettering on spine and cover. The spine is a slightly lighter blue, normal sun-fading. There is offsetting to front free endpaper and back endpapers (almost always due to the material dissimilarity between the cloth and the lining papers). Bookplate of Mary Fidelia Webster on front lining paper. $20.00

Germany dhgfb (Tubingen University) Decker-Hauff, Hansmartin, Gerhard Fichtner, Klaus Schreiner. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Universität Tübingen: 1477-1977. (Series: 500 [i.e. Fünfhundert] Jahre Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen.) Herausgegeben im Auftrage des Universitatspräsidenten und des Senats der Eberhard Karls-Universitat Tübingen von Hansmartin Decker-Hauff, Gerhard Fichtner und Klaus Schreiner. Bearbeitet von Wilfried Setzler. Tübingen: Attempto-Verlag, 1977, xxiv, 576 pages, bib, illustrations. Very good copy in good dust jacket. Heavy volume. $27.50 Box 2129

GE 1000 (Brecht, Bertolt). Willett, John. Brecht in context: comparative approaches. London and New York: Methuen, 1984, 274p, notes, index. Some pretty faint light spotting on top paper edge, blind stamp of well-known theatre scholar on title page else very good in dust jacket. Study by the outstanding Brecht scholar. $9.50

Middle Ages 752 Dolley, Michael and Karl Frederick Morrison. The Carolingian coins in the British Museum. London: British Museum, 1966, ix, 46 p. 12 plates, tables. Good to very good copy in dust jacket, cover has a minor bowing. Dust jacket has some minor wrinkles. Nice, bright, clean, tight copy. $25.00

Middle Ages 70cc101 Carolingian Chronicles: Royal Frankish Annals and Nithard's Histories. Translated by Bernhard Walter Scholz with Barbara Rogers. University of Michigan Press, 1970, x, 235 pages, notes, bib, index. Very good in dust jacket. $30.00 Box A 101

Middle Ages cecu Carolingian Essays. Edited byUta-Renate Blumenthal.(Andrew W. Mellon Lectures in Early Christian Studies). Catholic University of America Press, 1983, x, 294p, index. Essays by Contreni, Bullough, Keefe, O'Meara, Reynolds, and Jeauneau. Essay on John Scottus and other material of Irish interest. New in like dust jacket. Bought them new from publisher. $23.50 Box 10

RL 1704 Safley, Thomas Max. Charity and Economy in the Orphanages of Early Modern Augsburg. New Jersey: Humanities Press International Inc., 1996, xiii, 350 pages, graphs, bib, index. This volume came from the library of a Lutheran professor. Laid in are notes prepared for a book review. There are neat check marks and marginalia throughout the book. Good, tight copy.

Middle Ages 19t59c Tellenbach, Gerd.
Church, state, and Christian society at the time of the investiture contest. Oxford: Blackwell, 1959, xxiv, 196p, index. Some minor fraying to head of spine, else good, clean tight copy. No jacket. First impression was 1940. $8.50 Box A 93

Catholic Church sfnc Scharpff, Franz Anton von. Der Cardinal und Bischof Nicolaus von Cusa, als Reformator in Kirche, Reich und Philosophie des Fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts. Frankfurt am Main: Minerva G. M. B. H., 1966, xvi, 400 pages, frontispiece. Errata slip. Very good, clean, tight copy of the photographic reprint of Mainz edition of 1843. $35.00 Box A 121

RL 1015 (Lutheran) Lohse, Bernhard, 1928-1997. Der Durchbruch der reformatorischen Erkenntnis bei Luther: neuere Untersuchungen. Herausgegeben von Bernhard Lohse. (Series: Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz, Abteilung Religionsgeschichte. Beiheft; 25). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden, 1988, xii, 387 pages, bib. Paperbound, few pencil marginalia from library of Lutheran scholar. Very good copy.
Contents:
Vorwort / Bernhard Lohse. -- Luthers Auslegung von Psalm 71(72),1 und 2 in der ersten Psalmenvorlesung/ Bernhard Lohse. -- Rechtfertigung und Gesetz: Studien zur Entwicklung der Rechtfertigungslehre beim jungen Luther/ Matthias Kroeger. -- Luthers Turerlebnis 1515/ Ole Modalsli. -- Die reformatorischer Erkenntnis/ Rolf Schäfer. -- Promissio: Geschichte der reformatorischen Wende in Luthers Theologie/ Oswald Bayer. -- Iustitia Christi: die Entdeckung Martin Luthers/ Martin Brecht. -- Beobachtungen über die Anfänge von Luthers Verhältnis zur Bibel/ Martin… Read More

RL 1040 (Lutheran) Seils, Martin. Der Gedanke vom Zusammenwirken Gottes und des Menschen in Luthers Theologie. (Series: Beiträge zur Förderung christlicher Theologie, 50. Bd). Gütersloh: Gerd Mohn, 1962, 201 pages, bib. Good in dust jacket. $25.00

Religion 900 Schicketanz, Peter. Der Pietismus von 1675 bis 1800. (Series:
Kirchengeschichte in Einzeldarstellungen; III/1). Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2001, 196 pages, bib, indexes. A few pencil notations and pencil underlining (this in first chapter), from the library of a Lutheran professor. Very good. $35.00

RL 1330 (Müntzer, Thomas (c. 1489 – 27 May 1525). Der Theologe Thomas Muntzer: Untersuchungen zu seiner Entwicklung und Lehre. Herausgegeben von Siegfried Brauer and Helmar Junghans. Berlin: Evangelische Verlaganstalt, 1989, 386 pages, index. Few pencilled notes, good copy in dust jacket. Fifteen essays on Thomas Muntzer. From the library of a Lutheran scholar, with inscription from Junghans. $17.50
Thomas Müntzer (c. 1489 – 27 May 1525) was a German preacher and theologian of the early Reformation whose opposition to both Martin Luther and the Roman Catholic Church led to his open defiance of late-feudal authority in central Germany. Müntzer was foremost amongst those reformers who took issue with Luther's compromises with feudal authority. He became a leader of the German peasant and plebeian uprising of 1525 commonly known as the German Peasants' War. He was captured after the Battle of Frankenhausen, tortured… Read More

RL 1210 Die Bibel: nach der Übersetzung Martin Luthers. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1987, 906 pages; 306 pages, 82 pages, maps. Old and New Testaments plus appendix "Anhang", last 82 pages. Book is in good condition, black cover and gilt lettering. Name of owner on title page. Paper is printed on the very thin paper that is often used to keep a large work from becoming a multi-volume and cumbersome work. Thus, some pages have wrinkling and folding. Everyone is aware of the dependence of the Protestant churches on the various "solas", Sola Scriptura, Sola Fidei, etc. Martin Luther added a sola, or "only", "allein", in German, in Romans 3:28. He never denied that he did but said it was implied. The "allein" is printed in this edition of Luther's translation. $10.00

Germany 025 Grass, Gunter. Die Blechtrommel. Mit 65 Illustrationen von Heinrich Richter.Neuwied and Berlin: Hermann Luchterhand, 1968, 555 pages, illustrated cover as well. The first edition of this novel,
The Tin Drum, was published by Luchterhand in 1959. This illustrated edition was first done in 1968 and was signed by the illustrator. This is not signed and lacks the dust jacket. The book is in good to very good condition, with minor soiling to cover due to the lack of a dust jacket. $40.00

Ancient world 1272Tacitus. (P. Cornelius Tacitus). Die Germania des Tacitus. Erläutert von Rudolf Much. Mit einer Karte, und 26 Abbildungen auf 12 Tafeln. Heidelberg, Carl Winter's Universitatsbuchhandlung, 1937, xiii. 464. index, illus. (Germanische Bibliothek. Abt. 1. Reihe 5. Bd. 3.) Good to good plus copy, the top corners are a little bent, as some of the tips of the pages, clean, tight, with no marks.

RL 1445 (Lutheran) Guggisberg, Hans R. and Gottfried G. Krodel, editors.
Die Reformation in Deutschland und Europa: Interpretationen und Debatten (Sonderband). Beiträge zur gemeinsamen Konferenz der Society for Reformation Research und des Vereins für Reformationsgeschichte, 25.-30. September 1990, im Deutschen Historischen Institut, Washington, D.C. (Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte. Internationale Zeitschrift zur Erforschung der Reformation und ihrer Weltwirkungen). Gutersloh: Gutersloher Verlagshaus 1993, 703 pages, index. Good to very good copy, some inoffensive checks and pencillings by a Lutheran professor. Some small spots to top paper edge. Number of interesting essays both in German an English. $45.00

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