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K.J. Hewett (1919-1994) was a renowned London dealer in ethnographic art and antiquities. Other books from his library were offered in these rooms on 21 March 2018.
OECOLAMPADIUS (JOHANNES) Annotationes piae ac doctae in Evangelium Joannis, FIRST EDITION, Basel, Cratander & Bebel, June 1533
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OECOLAMPADIUS (JOHANNES)
Footnotes
A WROCŁAW/BRESLAU BINDING MADE FOR JOHANN HESS, BY THE BINDER "H.B.", DATED 1535. Goldschmidt describes the decoration on another binding made for Hess with the same initials ("I.H.") and date 1525, as "one of the earliest, if not the earliest, dated roll known... it is also remarkable as one of the few rolls clearly bearing the initials, not of the binder, nor of the stamp cutter, but of the owner of the book" (Gothic and Renaissance Bookbindings II, 1967, p.320).
Provenance: Johann Hess, or a member of his circle, with Hess's initials on the binding. Hess (1490-1547) was the first evangelical pastor of Wrocław, having met both Luther and Melancthon in 1519; K.J. Hewett, bookplate.





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