Fine Books and Manuscripts

Defensio Jurium status ecclesiastici circa temporalia ex principiis juris naturae contra nuperos impugnatores potissimum deducta. Pars posterior. [Regensberg:] n.p., 1757. Small 4to (203 x 170 mm). (A few pale spots.) CONTEMPORARY GERMAN CALF, sides elaborately decorated with borders of 3 roll tools and 3 single fillets gilt surrounding a central lozenge with drawer-handle, foliate and leaf design gilt and painted black and green, smooth spine with drawer-handle and foliate tools and roll tool borders, edges gilt and gauffered (some light wear to gilt, lacking ties). A fine German mosaique binding.