Von Kauffshandlung und Wucher.
Wittenberg: Hans Lufft, 1524.
1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #003877
4to (200 x 147 mm). 36 unnumbered leaves, title with woodcut border, woodcut initial. Signatures: A-I4. Bound in modern stiff vellum, new endpapers. Text with light even browning, occasional minor spotting, dust- and finger-soiling and little pale marginal dampstaining; title and two first and final text leaves with minor paper repairs to outer blank margins. A few annotations in contemporary and later hand. Provenance: from a private German collection of economics. A very good, well margined copy. Collated and complete. ----
RARE FIRST EDITION unter this title, reprinted four more times in the same year. This is the enlarged new edition of the Sermons vom Wucher (Sermon on Usury, 1519), which reaffirms Luther's well-known conservative stance against interest, usury and sureties. "Luther does not reject trade in general ... The basic error of most commercial transactions lies in the fact that they want to make the goods as expensive as possible; instead it should be said, as expensive as right and fair" (transl. from Roscher 60).
References & Bibliography: VD 16, L 7278; Benzing 1940; Kress p.51; Roscher p.54 ff.; Luther, TE 32. - Visit our website to see more images!
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