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GERSON, Johannes (1363-1429). Opera . Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 12-21 March 1489. A complete set of Gerson’s works in contemporary bindings . He was a French scholar, educator, reformer, and poet, Chancellor of the University of Paris, a guiding light of the conciliar movement and one of the most prominent theologians at the Council of Constance. He was one of the first thinkers to develop what would later come to be called natural rights theory, and was also one of the first individuals to defend Joan of Arc and proclaim her supernatural vocation as authentic. HC *7624; GW 10715; BMC III 767; BSB-Ink G-184; Goff G-187. 4 parts bound in 3 volumes, chancery folio (310 x 220; 309 x 220; 311 x 222mm). Each with a woodcut copy of a Pilgrim from Prüss’s 1488 Strasbourg edition on title verso, last two volumes with rubrication and initials supplied in red and blue, vol. 1 with blank after index, woodcut coloured in near-contemporary hand, rubricated in red, leaves n4-5 bound between m3-4, vol. 2 without last blank, vol. 3 with last blank (worming touching text, mostly in first and last few quires, occasional marginalia). Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, vol. 2: from Tübingen (Kyriss 105), vol. 3 with inked title on upper board, all with traces of clasps (a few wormholes, mostly on vol. 1, lightly soiled, rubbed). Provenance : Germany: vol. 1: Windberg monastery libray (purchase record on title) – vol. 2: Oberboihingen (purchase record by Georg ?Dettinger, dated 1567 on title) – vol. 3: Rottenbuch, AugustinerChorherren monastery (inscription on title) – Munich Royal Libray (‘Duplum’ on pastedown).