Cochlaeus (Johannes): Historiae Hussitarum, Mainz, Francisci Behem, 1549, folio, Roman type, publisher's device on final leaf (some worming affecting first half). [Adams C2272; Spahn 188; Widmann 82. 5]; bound with -- Commentaria de Actis and Scriptis Martini Lutheri, Mainz, Francisci Behem, 1549, folio, Roman type, publisher's device on final leaf (final gathering misbound), contemporary blind-stamped pigskin with metal clasps, spine with four raised bands (soiled and somewhat rubbed). [Adams C2252; Spahn 189a; Widman 82.4]

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Cochlaeus (Johannes): Historiae Hussitarum, Mainz, Francisci Behem, 1549, folio, Roman type, publisher's device on final leaf (some worming affecting first half). [Adams C2272; Spahn 188; Widmann 82. 5]; bound with -- Commentaria de Actis and Scriptis Martini Lutheri, Mainz, Francisci Behem, 1549, folio, Roman type, publisher's device on final leaf (final gathering misbound), contemporary blind-stamped pigskin with metal clasps, spine with four raised bands (soiled and somewhat rubbed). [Adams C2252; Spahn 189a; Widman 82.4]

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John Huss, the Bohemian reformer and follower of Wycliffe, born circa 1373, was condemned as a heretic and executed at the Council of Constance in 1415. Following his death, Bohemia and its neighbours were convulsed for over 20 years by the various warring parties, internal and external, religious and secular, reformers and conservatives, in what became known as the 'Hussite Wars'.

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