Thieves and murderers - Confidential conversation between the Lutheran preacher M. Hermann Joachim Hahn, who was murdered in Dreßden on May 21, 1726, and the well-known Johann Huss, who was burned alive on May 1415 ... was burned alive. With 2 copper plates (1 folded in) and 2 woodcuts. Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1726. 160 pp. 20 x 15.5 cm. - Bound: V. E. Löscher. The Eloquent Blood of an Innocently Killed Abel ... in the Frauen-Kirche at Dreßden in a witty light sermon, the ... Hermann Joachim Hahnen ... in honor and blessed afterglory. With engraved frontispiece. Ibid. 1726. 28 pp. - And: Conversation in the Realm of the Living, between the lately miserably murdered ... Hahn and the well-known Jesuit, Father Nonnhardt, in Dreßden, on occasion of an apostasy committed in 1722 by a distinguished lady ... by a distinguished lady in 1722. Ibid. 1726. 40 pp. Half leather binding of the period over wooden boards (warped, heavily rubbed, damaged capitals). First editions. - An anthology containing the essential writings on the murder of the Kreuzkirche preacher Hahn by the Bavarian butcher and re-convert Franz Laubler. The case caused a great stir and led to a civil uprising in Dresden in May 1726. - Some comparative copies of the first publication contain only a frontispiece, which is not bound in here, but instead there is a portrait of the murderer in chains and a folding copperplate of his execution. - First title page loose, frayed and with tidemark in the binding, folding copperplate with marginal tear, second title page with frontispiece loose, somewhat stained in places. VAT: *