[RIEDRER, Friedrich.] Spiegel der waren Rhetoric: usz Marco Tullio Cicerone und andern geteutscht ... Neuwlich (unnd vormaln in gemeyn nye gesehen) yetz loblich aussgangen unnd getruckt. Strassburg: Johannes Knoblauch, 1517.

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[RIEDRER, Friedrich.] Spiegel der waren Rhetoric: usz Marco Tullio Cicerone und andern geteutscht ... Neuwlich (unnd vormaln in gemeyn nye gesehen) yetz loblich aussgangen unnd getruckt. Strassburg: Johannes Knoblauch, 1517.

2° (273 x 190mm). Title with large woodcut illustration. (Lacks final blank). Contemporary wooden boards, later? morocco back (clasps lacking). Provenance: Bibliotheca Monasterii Montis S.Georgi, 1659 (ownership inscription on title and f.152).

The third edition of the first German book of legal formulas, first published in 1493. It consists of translations of Cicero, Quintilian and Albertanus of Brescia illustrated with examples of German law. It is also the first German translation of any part of Cicero's works. Not in Worstbrock; BL STC German 740.

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