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Geschichte Papst Innocenz des Dritten und seiner Zeitgenossen [three volumes]. zweiter vemehrter und verbesserter Auflage.
Hamburg, Germany: Friedrich Perthes, 1836-1838. Second and enlarged, improved edition. Quarter calf. Translation to English: History of Pope Innocent III and his contemporaries. Hurter, Friedrich Emanuel von a Swiss theologian who became a convert to Romanism, was born at Schaffhausen March 19,1787. He studied Protestant theology at the University of Göttingen, became pastor of a country congregation in his native canton, 1824, first pastor of the city of Schaffhausen, 1835, antistes (chief of the clergy of the canton) and dean of the synod. He converted to Catholicism in 1844, and devoted his time mainly to the study of history, and in 1845 accepted a call to Vienna as imperial historiographer. Died 1865. Very Good+. Moderate head and tail wear, spine loss (super showing), chipping, rubbing to extremities, minor foxing, otherwise tight, bright, and unmarred. Quarter calf over marbled boards, four raised decorative bands, gilt titling, leather spine labels; 8vo, paging: xvii, 768, x, 755, viii, 616 pp. Volume 1 with an engraved portrait frontispiece of Innocence III. Lacking volume 4. Item #11118
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