LUTHER, Martin (1483-1546). De servo arbitrio… ad D. Erasmum. Nuremberg: J. Petreius, 1526. Title within a woodcut architectural border, device on last page. (Stab-hole from P1-R4 with mimimal damage to text, wormhole from R6-8 affecting text slightly.) This edition not in Adams and apparently not in Benzing. [Bound with:] ERASMUS, Desiderius (c.1466-1536). Hyperaspistes diatribae aduersus seruum arbitrium Martini Lutheri.  N.p.: s.n., 1526. (Repaired worming in P4-6 affecting a few words.) Adams E-674. 2 works in one volume. 8º (155 x 100mm). 17th-century half vellum. Provenance: some early marginalia and later underlining -- indistinct title stamp from an ecclesiastical institution -- Christ's College, Aberdeen (cancelled stamp on front free endpaper).
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LUTHER, Martin (1483-1546). De servo arbitrio… ad D. Erasmum. Nuremberg: J. Petreius, 1526. Title within a woodcut architectural border, device on last page. (Stab-hole from P1-R4 with mimimal damage to text, wormhole from R6-8 affecting text slightly.) This edition not in Adams and apparently not in Benzing. [Bound with:] ERASMUS, Desiderius (c.1466-1536). Hyperaspistes diatribae aduersus seruum arbitrium Martini Lutheri. N.p.: s.n., 1526. (Repaired worming in P4-6 affecting a few words.) Adams E-674. 2 works in one volume. 8º (155 x 100mm). 17th-century half vellum. Provenance: some early marginalia and later underlining -- indistinct title stamp from an ecclesiastical institution -- Christ's College, Aberdeen (cancelled stamp on front free endpaper).

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LUTHER, Martin (1483-1546). De servo arbitrio… ad D. Erasmum. Nuremberg: J. Petreius, 1526. Title within a woodcut architectural border, device on last page. (Stab-hole from P1-R4 with mimimal damage to text, wormhole from R6-8 affecting text slightly.) This edition not in Adams and apparently not in Benzing. [Bound with:] ERASMUS, Desiderius (c.1466-1536). Hyperaspistes diatribae aduersus seruum arbitrium Martini Lutheri. N.p.: s.n., 1526. (Repaired worming in P4-6 affecting a few words.) Adams E-674. 2 works in one volume. 8º (155 x 100mm). 17th-century half vellum. Provenance: some early marginalia and later underlining -- indistinct title stamp from an ecclesiastical institution -- Christ's College, Aberdeen (cancelled stamp on front free endpaper).

Early editions of the debate on free will between Erasmus and Luther, which caused an unbridgeable breach between the two men.