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APOSTOLIC CANONS. Canones apostolorum. Veterum conciliorum constitutiones..., Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, April 1525. 2° (309 x 202mm). Woodcut initials (title and last page very lightly spotted and stained). 19th-century boards (spine soiled and torn). Provenance: Liber Bibliothece Cellensis (? the Benedictine Library at La Celle, early ownership inscription on title). FIRST EDITION. Adams C542.

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APOSTOLIC CANONS. Canones apostolorum. Veterum conciliorum constitutiones..., Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, April 1525. 2° (309 x 202mm). Woodcut initials (title and last page very lightly spotted and stained). 19th-century boards (spine soiled and torn). Provenance: Liber Bibliothece Cellensis (? the Benedictine Library at La Celle, early ownership inscription on title). FIRST EDITION. Adams C542.

MERLIN, Jacques. Conciliorum quatuor generalium, Cologne: Peter Quentel, 1530. 2 volumes in one, 2° (319 x 193mm). Woodcut device on title, portrait of the emperor Karl IV on cc6v, initials from the Kinderschule (severe worming in the inner margins of the last few gatherings at the end with slight loss of text, title somewhat soiled, waterstains at the beginning). 18th-century blindstamped calf over wooden boards, hinges worn). Provenance: John Strete (early 17th-century purchase inscription 'viijs' on title); Cuthbert H. Turner (book-label). Adams C2766.

CRABBE, Petrus. Concilia omnia..., Cologne: Peter Quentel, 1538. 2 volumes in 4, 2° (311 x 198mm). Titles within a woodcut historiated border composed of 10 blocks and a portrait of Charles V on the verso, both volumes with the final leaf 'Ad lectorem', woodcut initials (some browning, staining and worming). 17th-century vellum (a little wormed and soiled). Provenance: Cuthbert H. Turner (book-label). Adams C2769; and another volume on councils. (7)
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