44 - Catechism

Catechism Pilarik, Stephen Most necessary and useful catechetical doctrinal reason: For the testimony of his thankful mind towards the fundamental pious God, for His great deeds of grace, which He has infinitely shown, and especially miraculous salvation from many bodily and spiritual distresses (...) With 1 engraved title page and 15 copper plates. Brieg, Jacob, 1687. 12 fol., 599 pp. Cl.-8°. Later pastedown with Spanish edges and colored edges on three sides (slightly stained and bumped). Very rare. - Second edition. - VD17 39:146629N - With stamp of the Protestant Central Library Breslau. - Work by the philosopher and Protestant theologian and pastor, first published in 1681. Pilarik was one of the exiled Protestants at the time of the Counter-Reformation. His flight and long journey finally ended in Neu-Salza, where he was pastor of the exiles of Neu-Salza from 1674 to 1693. - Overall a very clean and well-preserved copy. With 1 engraved title page and 15 copperplate illustrations. Later half leather binding with Spanish edges and three-sided color edging (slightly stained and bumped). - Very rare. - Second edition. - With stamp of the Protestant Central Library in Breslau. - Work by the philosopher, Protestant theologian, and pastor, first published in 1681. Pilarik was one of the Protestants expelled during the Counter-Reformation. His flight and long journey finally ended in Neu-Salza, where he was pastor to the exiles of Neu-Salza from 1674 to 1693. - Overall, a very clean and well-preserved copy.