ECK Johann - Enchiridion Locorum communium aduersus Lutherum & alios hostes ecclesiae....

ECK Johann - Enchiridion Locorum communium aduersus Lutherum & alios hostes ecclesiae. Ingolstadii 1556. in Officina Alexandri et Samuelis Vueissenhornios. 8, k. [2], 253, [4]. Opr. embossed leather on period board.
Losses of leather on spine, missing fasteners, traces of dampstaining, first folds loose. Mistake in folio after p. 4. Title page bicolor black and red. One of the many editions of the famous treatise by the famous German theologian J. Eck (1486-1543), first published in 1525. It was directed against Melanchthon and Zwingli, becoming in time one of the most important publications of the European Counter-Reformation. The piece has a Polish provenance entry from the period, mentioning the name "Krzemienieski" and the town of Skole.