Author: MELANCHTHON, PHILIPPUS
Title: Loci Praecipui Theologici. Nunc denuo cura et diligentia summa recogniti, multisque in locis copiose illustrati. Cum appendice disputationis de Coniugio
Description: Leipzig, Heirs Valentin Pabst, 1559. (16) 858 (83) p. Contemporary blind-stamped Pigskin over wooden boards with raised bands, 8° (Corner-tips of the boards slightly grazed, wanting parts of the straps and clasps. Text-block slightly browned throughout with minor staining in the margins at places. Boards richly decorated with stamps depicting Luther on the front cover and Melanchthon on the back cover, both in a frame of other stamps depicting various saints and within two horizontal panels on the front cover the initials A.K.C. and the year 1565. Several ownership-entries on the endpapers in the front and titlepage. Melanchthon's systematic theology, first published in 1521 with the title Loci Communes it lays out the Christian doctrine resulting in the first systematic treatment of the new Wittenberg theology developed by Luther.).

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