GOLDEN Covenant - The Old, Worthy, Manly Eydgenossen or Helvetians, Best Union, and Pündnussen, which with body, good, and blood, together pledged, and bound, to live and die with and by each other in the old Catholic Roman Faith, happened at Lucerne the 4th Octob. 1586. with large woodcut title by Alexander Mair (repeated in the text) . Munich, A. Berg, 1588. cl.-4°. [36] pp. Modern paperback. VD16 S 4803 - Barth 1783a - Haller V, 596. - One of four editions in the same year. - The Golden League, founded in 1586 and existing until 1798, was the separate union of the Catholic places of the Confederation (Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Zug, Lucerne as well as Fribourg and Solothurn) under the conditions of the permanent confessional conflict within Switzerland in the early modern period. - Titles reinforced in the front. Throughout, initially heavier dampstains, otherwise only slightly browned.