1554 INSTITUTIO CATHOLICA 16th CENTURY PIGSKIN BINDING ANTIQUE Johannes Gropper

INSTITUTIO CATHOLICA,
elemeta Christianae pietatis succincta brevitate complectens...

by Johannes Gropper

Cologne, Jaspar Gennep, 1554

36 leaves, 680 pp., 1 leaf


. Cf. Adams G 1282. STC 372-


– Early edition. The first edition appeared in 1550 in the printing house of J. Gennep. –


Original blind stamped pigskin, spine with raised bands and manuscript title, lacks clasps

Endpaper and white leaf with handwritten notes, as well as endpaper and title page with several ownership stamps "Bibliothek SJ Zürich" and "Archivum V.-Prov. Helveticae" (the latter crossed out).

36 lvs., 680 pp., 1 leaf

Size 3 by 5.5"

text in Latin
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Johann Gropper (John or German: Johannes Gropper;  1503 –  1559) was a German cardinal and church politician of the Reformation period.
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