1650 Church History 1ed Clarke Marrow Augustine Latimer Luther Calvin Perkins

1650 Church History 1^ed Clarke Marrow Augustine Latimer Luther Calvin Perkins

Samuel Clarke’s ‘Ecclesiastical History’ is a rare, 17^th-century Puritan perspective on famous church fathers and religious leaders. Clarke includes biographical sketches of notable figures including Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Polycarp, Saint Augustine, Saint Ambrose, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Chrysostom, Justin Martyr, Dionysius, Pope Gregory I, Hugh Latimer, William Perkins, Joseph Scaliger, Theodore Beza, and many more.

This rare 1650 first edition features 69 impressive portrait engravings with each entry and is bound in a beautiful leather binding!

Item number: #8121

Price: $950

CLARKE, Samuel

The marrow of ecclesiastical historie: conteined in the lives of the fathers, and other learned men, and famous divines, which have flourished in the Church since Christ’s time, to this present age. Faithfully collected out of several autors, and orderly disposed, according to the centuries wherein they lived. Together with the livelie effigies of most of the eminentest of them cut in copper

London: Printed by William Du-gard, dwelling in Suffolk-lane [anno Domini M.DC.L. [1650]. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [32], 500, [8]
  • 69 portrait engravings throughout, including full-page frontispiece (evidence of a first edition)
• References: Wing C 4543; ESTC R 206289; Lowndes 473;
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight & secure
• Size: ~7.5in X 6in (19cm x 15cm)

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