[ 8 ] BULLINGER, Hei<strong>nr</strong>ich (1504-1575). De scripturae sanctae authoritate, certitudine, firmitate etabsoluta perfectione, deque episcoporum, qui verbi dei ministri sunt, institutione & functione,contra superstitionis tyrannidisque Romanae antistites, ad sereniss. Angliae regem Hei<strong>nr</strong>ychumVIII. Hei<strong>nr</strong>ychi Bullingeri libri duo. Zürich, Christoph Froschauer, 1538. 4to. (8) 180 lvs. Modernhalf vellum with marbled paper-covered boards. 1.600,-First edition of one of the earliest reformed treatises on the doctrine of Scripture. As stated on the title-page, Descripturae sanctae authoritate consists of two books. In the first book, which mainly deals with Scripture, Bullinger’schief concern is to assert the superiority of Scripture against the claim of the Roman Catholic Church to haveauthority over Scripture and to be the custodian of extra-scriptural tradition. In the second (and much longer) book,dealing with more practical matters of church structure and church leadership, Bullinger discusses the developmentof the leadership of God’s people, the preparation for the tasks of ministry, the chief responsibilities of ministers,and last but not least, the claim of the bishop of Rome to headship over the church. - Title-page slightly soiled,margins of first few leaves stained, single wormhole through text of first eleven gatherings, and some marginalwormholes (affecting a few shoulder notes).VD 16 B 9685; Staedtke 111; Rudolphi 252; Vischer C 273; Kuczynski 147.
DAILLÉ, Jean (1594-1670). De imaginibus libri IV. Leiden, Bonaventura Elzevier and AbrahamElzevier, 1642. 8vo. (16) 552 (3) pp. Contemporary vellum. 350,-[ 9 ]First and only Latin edition of Daillé’s important treatise on the use and worship of images. Daillé, a FrenchProtestant theologian, was successively private chaplain to the Huguenot leader Philippe Duplessis-Mornay andpastor at Saumur and Charenton in Paris. His treatise above, which is divided into four books, was first publishedin French in 1641. For decades it remained unanswered by Roman Catholic writers. The most thoughtful responsecame from Noël Alexandre (1639-1724), a French Dominican, who inserted a dissertation in his twenty-six-volumeecclesiastical history (1676-1686) in which he attempted to negate Daillé’s arguments. - Centre of upper pastedowncut out (presumably to remove a bookplate) and first endpaper missing.Willems 536.