TRITHEIM, Johannes. Catalogus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum... cum appendice eorum qui nostro etiam seculo doctissimi clauere... Cologne: Peter Quentell, 1531.

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TRITHEIM, Johannes. Catalogus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum... cum appendice eorum qui nostro etiam seculo doctissimi clauere... Cologne: Peter Quentell, 1531.

4° (202 x 150mm.). (Some browning, wormhole at inner margin to cc4 and in outer margin of last 3 leaves.) Contemporary blind-stamped alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, brass clasps. Provenance: Spiegel (inscription dated 1569); Leodegarius Nichholzer (inscription dated 1579); Cistercian abbey of St. Urban, nr.Langenthal, Switzerland (inscription); J. Carson Brevoort (presentation label to); Long Island Historical Society (stamps on title and final leaf).

A fine early edition of the first bibliography to be compiled as a practical work of reference. Johann Tritheim, abbot of Spanheim lists 982 authors with short biographical notes on each, and circa 7000 titles in chronological order. This edition, the fourth, is augmented by an appendix on 16th-century authors. Adams T-966.