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BOCHTURNIUS, Anselmus. Christiana indulgentiis assertio. Venice: Bernardino Vitali, 1 June 1521. 4° (193 x 145mm). Without P4, undoubtedly blank. One ornamental woodcut initial. (Some light spotting.) 18th-century dark olive morocco, gilt fillet border with spirals, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Henry Jeffreys Bushby (armorial bookplate). W.J. Leighton, bookseller (sale of his stock, Sotheby's, 13 May 1919, lot 963, £1.5 to Quaritch). RARE, not in Adams, not in the British Library, not in NUC.

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BOCHTURNIUS, Anselmus. Christiana indulgentiis assertio. Venice: Bernardino Vitali, 1 June 1521. 4° (193 x 145mm). Without P4, undoubtedly blank. One ornamental woodcut initial. (Some light spotting.) 18th-century dark olive morocco, gilt fillet border with spirals, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Henry Jeffreys Bushby (armorial bookplate). W.J. Leighton, bookseller (sale of his stock, Sotheby's, 13 May 1919, lot 963, £1.5 to Quaritch). RARE, not in Adams, not in the British Library, not in NUC.

POSSELIUS, Johannes. Evangelia et Epistola, in Greek and Latin. Wittenberg: Johannes Crato, 1572. 8° (151 x 96mm). Italic, Greek, and roman types. Woodcut title vignette, 62 woodcuts. Without blank T8. Late 19th-century purple morocco gilt, gilt edges, signed by Petit. Provenance: Cecil M. Knatchbull-Hugessen (inscription from his father as Christmas gift, 1883). (2)
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