Werkmeister, Benedict Maria von "Thomas Freykirch,... Lot 915

Werkmeister, Benedict Maria von "Thomas Freykirch, oder freymüthige Untersuchungen über die Unfehlbarkeit der katholischen Kirche von einem katholischen Gottesgelehrten. Erster Band. Alles Erschienene. Motto: ""Ausus sequi quocunque veritas duxit."" Fra Werkmeister, Benedict Maria von "Thomas Freykirch, or Freymüthige Untersuchungen über die Unfehlbarkeit der katholischen Kirche von einem katholischen Gottesgelehrten. Volume 1. Everything that has appeared. Motto: ""Ausus sequi quocunque veritas duxit."" Frankfurt & Leipzig, o. V., 1792. 2 pp., LXIV, 1 p., 394 pp. Bound in gilt on 4 bands with gilt label, red edges and silk ribbon (somewhat rubbed). "First edition of this important work of the ecclesiastical Enlightenment. - The printing of the anonymously published work was perpared by the Protestant theologian Gottlieb Jakob Planck, the grandfather of the physicist Max Planck. - Werkmeister often expressed views quite contrary to those of the Roman Catholic Church. ""All his writings, most of which appeared anonymously, serve the purpose of bringing about a reform in the Church in the areas of liturgy, doctrine and constitution."" (Schulte) - Contemporary half calf with gilt spine title (slightly rubbed). Throughout with varying degrees of foxing. Endpaper with bookplate of a parish library." "Holzmann / Bohatta II, 4216. - Important work of the ecclesiastical Enlightenment in the original condition of the first edition. - The printing of the anonymously published work was by the Protestant theologian Gottlieb Jakob Planck, the grandfather of the physicist Max Planck. - Werkmeister often expressed views quite contrary to those of the Roman Catholic Church. "All his writings, most of which appeared anonymously... serve the purpose of bringing about a reform in the church in the field of liturgy, doctrine and constitution."" (Schulte in ADB XLLII, 11ff). - Throughout differently strongly foxed. Inside mirror with bookplate of a parish library." *