1787 – Huge Lutheran Devotional | Praxis Evangelicorum – Martin Moller, Illustrated

Praxis Evangelicorum by Martin Möller is an early Reformation-era Lutheran devotional, originally published in the 16^th-century. Moller, often associated with Protestant Pietism, wrote this book to include explanation and practical application of expository texts for every Sunday Gospel, festival, and Apostolic day across the liturgical calendar. It was useful for not only clergy but for common laymen too.

This huge 1787 tome is notable, not just for its size, but for the numerous in-text woodcut engravings throughout.

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Praxis Evangelicorum, Das ist: Einfältige, nützliche Erklärung und Betrachtung Der Evangelien
• Author(s): Martin Möller; Joachim Coppen
• Publisher: Lüneburg, Sternischen Buchdruckerey
• Edition: 1787 edition
• Binding: Full tooled leather
• Format: (4to), single volume
• Size:  10.5 in x 9.5 in x 4.5 in (26.7 cm x 24.1 cm x 11.4 cm)
• Collation: [8], 1111, 80, 71, 12 pp
• Illustrations: In-text woodcut engravings throughout
• Contents Include:
  • Sunday Gospel commentaries
  • Festival and Apostolic day sermons
  • Companion reflections on the Epistles

Condition:

Good. Period full leather binding with tooling, showing minor loss at corners and edges. Text block is intact and firm. Pages clean with visible woodcut prints. Brass clasps no longer functioning.

Why Collect This?

• Scarce theological volume by a key Lutheran devotional author
• Illustrated with woodcuts throughout
• Printed in Lüneburg by a known Protestant press

Item Number: # 29743