Chytraeus,D. Explicatio apocalypsis Iohannis perspicua & brevis, tradita et recognita. Wittenberg, Johann Krafft the Elder, 1575. Cl.8°. Title with vignette, 537 [recte 535] pp. with 48 partly repeated woodcuts after Virgil Solis; blindstamped Wittenberg binding over wooden boards on three high bindings, front board with plate stamp (Christ on the cross, signed "MV") and scroll stamp (heads between floral motifs), back board with the same scroll stamp and plate stamp (Resurrection), 1 (of 2) clasps. VD16 B 5269; Adams B 1947; not in Kuczynski. For the front cover see Haebler 1, 466, XIX, for the back cover see Haebler 1, 468, LI. - Rare Bible commentary by a leading representative of the late Reformation (1530-1600) in an early edition. Also contains texts by Philipp Melanchthon and Georg Aemilius.

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