366 - Franck, S. The book sealed with seven seals, which no one can open, understand, or read except the Lamb, and those marked with the Thaw, who belong to the Lamb, together with a preface about the seven seals... No place or printer (Augsburg, Steiner), 1539. 14 unnumbered leaves, 220 leaves. With a woodcut title page. 4°. Contemporary parchment binding with calligraphic title on spine in red and black (somewhat stained).

Franck, S. The book sealed with seven seals, which no one can open, understand, or read except the Lamb, and those marked with the Thaw, who belong to the Lamb, together with a preface about the seven seals... No place or printer (Augsburg, Steiner), 1539. 14 unnumbered leaves, 220 leaves. With a woodcut title page. 4°. Contemporary parchment binding with calligraphic title on spine in red and black (somewhat stained). VD16 F 2136.- Rare first edition.- A curious work by the Basel scholar and spiritualist writer Sebastian Franck (1499-1542/43), which questions Western tradition. 'It is a book full of revolutionary content, it is an ark of dynamite.' This truly stirs up tremendous unrest, so much so that one might almost call it a destruction of the Bible...' (Peuckert, W.-E. Sebastian Franck, page 382).- The title woodcut shows a blindfolded scholar in a vault before the eponymous book with seven seals.- Front endpaper missing, inner hinges reinforced with cloth tape. Slightly damp-stained in places at the top edge.