Werkmeister, Benedict Maria von "Thomas Freykirch,... Lot n° 915

Werkmeister, Benedict Maria von "Thomas Freykirch, or Freymüthige Untersuchungen über die Unfehlbarkeit der katholischen Kirche von einem katholischen Gottesgelehrten. Volume 1. Everything that has appeared. Motto: ""Ausus sequi quocunque veritas duxit."" Frankfurt & Leipzig, o. V., 1792. 2 pp., LXIV, 1 p., 394 pp. Bound in gilt on 4 bands with gilt label, red edges and silk ribbon (somewhat rubbed). "First edition of this important work of the ecclesiastical Enlightenment. - The printing of the anonymously published work was perpared by the Protestant theologian Gottlieb Jakob Planck, the grandfather of the physicist Max Planck. - Werkmeister often expressed views quite contrary to those of the Roman Catholic Church. ""All his writings, most of which appeared anonymously, serve the purpose of bringing about a reform in the Church in the areas of liturgy, doctrine and constitution."" (Schulte) - Contemporary half calf with gilt spine title (slightly rubbed). Throughout with varying degrees of foxing. Endpaper with bookplate of a parish library." "Holzmann / Bohatta II, 4216. - Important work of the ecclesiastical Enlightenment in the original condition of the first edition. - The printing of the anonymously published work was by the Protestant theologian Gottlieb Jakob Planck, the grandfather of the physicist Max Planck. - Werkmeister often expressed views quite contrary to those of the Roman Catholic Church. "All his writings, most of which appeared anonymously... serve the purpose of bringing about a reform in the church in the field of liturgy, doctrine and constitution."" (Schulte in ADB XLLII, 11ff). - Throughout differently strongly foxed. Inside mirror with bookplate of a parish library." *