Margarita Facetiarum.
Alfonsi Aragonum Regis Vafredicta Proverbia Sigismundi & Friderici tertii Ro[manorum]. Imp[er]ator[is]...
Stock Code 93120
[Straßburg] Johann Grüninger, [1509].
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£1,250.00
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Original price
£1,250.00
Original price
£1,250.00
£1,250.00
£1,250.00
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£1,250.00
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£1,250.00
A collection of anecdotes, witticisms and facetiae of famous men, first published just a year before; it contains sayings, some serious and others amusing, attributed to respected recent figures, including Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (r.1452-93), the popular preacher Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg (1445 – 1510), and the renaissance patron Alfonso, King of Naples (r. 1494-5).
This collection, gathered and introduced by the early XVI century doctor, translator, and chronicler Johannes Adelphus, is rare on the market: we could trace only two copies of this edition at auction in the last 35 years.
18 x 13 cm. 100 leaves, slight soiling to title, a few instances of period ink in margins, upper margin tight and in some cases shaved into headlines, full 19th century calf with spine lettered in gilt, Stirling-Maxwell's copy with his devices to boards in blind, small scuffs to spine, edges rubbed, title laid down and with period ink and engraved bookplate laid on, upper cover detached, worn.
This collection, gathered and introduced by the early XVI century doctor, translator, and chronicler Johannes Adelphus, is rare on the market: we could trace only two copies of this edition at auction in the last 35 years.
18 x 13 cm. 100 leaves, slight soiling to title, a few instances of period ink in margins, upper margin tight and in some cases shaved into headlines, full 19th century calf with spine lettered in gilt, Stirling-Maxwell's copy with his devices to boards in blind, small scuffs to spine, edges rubbed, title laid down and with period ink and engraved bookplate laid on, upper cover detached, worn.
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