Like the first, this second edition of Vettori’s criticism of Cicero is in Latin with quotations and examples in Greek. It is self-described on the title-page as “quae corrupta, mutila, & praeposterè sita admiserat prima editio, haec 2. sedulò castigauit, suóque loco restituit.” The volume begins with the printer’s device on the title-page bearing the motto “Et fugit interea fugit irreparabile tempus,” and prints the text in a clear roman type accented with historiated and portrait woodcut initials and woodcut head-pieces. A handsome production.

Provenance: 17th-century near-calligraphic ownership inscriptions on title-page of the Jesuit College at Tudela, Spain; and of G.M. Desmarsall.

•  Adams V687. Recent deep walnut full calf old style, by Grace Bindings (signed in blind at inner area of rear cover, lower turn-in): Round spine with raised bands accented in gilt and with blind-tooled devices in compartments; oxblood leather label, gilt-lettered; fillets extending onto covers from each band to terminate in trefoils and covers framed in blind double fillets. Lacks one internal blank leaf (only). All edges marbled. A very good copy.

The second work here is a solid work of Lutheran doctrine on the omnipresence of God and His presence in the Eucharist.

Provenance: 17th-century signature on title-page of Caspar Lutz; late-19th-century signature of Howard Osgood on same (and his bookplate on the front pastedown). Pressure-stamp of a theological library on title-page (properly deaccessioned).

Evidence of readership: Scattered underlining in both works and a few instances of marginalia of a few words. Marginalia of second work in a different hand and sometimes cropped by binder.

•  I: VD16 W2708; Hillerbrand, Anabaptism; 2426. II: VD16 W883; Kuczynski, Thesaurus, 3664.   Full dark walnut modern calf old style: Spine with raised bands accented with gilt beading on ech band and blind rules above and below each band, the latter extending onto covers to terminate in trefoils; burgundy leather author label and gilt place/date at base of spine; blind-tooled device in spine compartments. Blind double fillets framing covers. Browning to text, paper good and supple.  (25819)

Appended to Xerez's account (fols. [43v] to [55r]) is a translation of Miguel de Estete's account of Pizarro's army's journey from Cajamarca to Pachacamac and then to Jauja. Estete too was present at Cajamarca and is said to have been the first Spaniard to lay hands on Atahuallpa.

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The concordat defines Anabaptism as a vice and the punishment ranges from fines to “drowning without mercy” depending on who the accused Anabaptist is; “foreigners” (non-natives of the jurisdictions), preachers, and backsliders are dealt with the most severely. Every citizen is bound to denounce anyone known to be or even suspected of being an Anabaptist. The concordat was a codification of Zwingli's extreme animosity towards the sect. It is considereda major document in Mennonite history.

Provenance: Ownership signature on title-page of Howard Osgood, noted late 19th- and early 20th-century collector and scholar; old circular pressure-stamp on same page of a seminary (properly released).

WorldCat locates only three copies in North America and COPAC locates only the copy at Oxford, but there is a copy at the British Library.