Baronio,C. Lot n° 11

Annales ecclesiastici. Editio novissima. 12 parts in 4 volumes. Cologne, Gymnicus 1624. fol. With gest. portrait front and gest. copperplate tit. Brown cloth d. Zt. with blind embossing. (Heavily worn, partly scuffed, corners partly damaged). Cf. Brunet I, 662. - The Italian cardinal and church historian Cesare Baronio (1538-1607) first published his history of the Christian church of the first twelve centuries between 1555 and 1607. The twelve volumes are to be understood as a reaction to the "Magdeburg Centuries". These appeared from 1559 to 1574 and are considered the first attempt to portray church history from the perspective of the Reformation. - Vol. 1 without rear flyleaf. Partly more browned, partly spotty.