![SCHULTZE, Hans, "Johannes Praetorius" (1630-1680). Satyrus Etymologicus, oder der Reformirende und Informirende Rüben-Zahl: Welcher in hundert nachdencklichen und neu-erfundenen eines seines Namens Derivationibus, sampt einer wackern Compagnie der possirlichsten und wahrhafftigsten Historien, von gedachtem Schlesichen Gespenste nebenst andern beygebrachten köstlichen raritäten und argutien kürzlich und nützlich vorstellet, sampt dem sonderbahren Anhange, der kleine Block-Berg genannt. N.p. n.d. [1672].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/NYR/2006_NYR_01769_0334_000(122638).jpg?w=1)
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SCHULTZE, Hans, "Johannes Praetorius" (1630-1680). Satyrus Etymologicus, oder der Reformirende und Informirende Rüben-Zahl: Welcher in hundert nachdencklichen und neu-erfundenen eines seines Namens Derivationibus, sampt einer wackern Compagnie der possirlichsten und wahrhafftigsten Historien, von gedachtem Schlesichen Gespenste nebenst andern beygebrachten köstlichen raritäten und argutien kürzlich und nützlich vorstellet, sampt dem sonderbahren Anhange, der kleine Block-Berg genannt. N.p. n.d. [1672].
2 parts in one volume. 8o (160 x 93 mm). One engraved folding plate. (Minor worming at end, affecting a few letters.) Contemporary vellum (covers slightly bowning). Provenance: purchased from Emil Offenbacher, 25 March 1958.
FIRST EDITION. A masterpiece of German Baroque printing and poetry, a chapter of poems by Shepherd of the Pegnitz pp.195-277 is interspersed with curiously printed typographical shapes, forming a guitar, a trefoil, a candle, a scale, a flower vase, a wreath, a tree, a ship and other designs. Additionally the volume is of great importance in the history of German folklore. It is the eccentric recorder of "Rübezahl," a mountain and storm spirit identified with the "Riesengebrige" mountain range between Bohemia and Silesia. The above volume follows his first collection of "Rübezahl" tales Daemonologia Rubinzalii Silesii published 1662. Hans Schultze was a prolific writer and wrote also under the pseudonyms of Petrus Hilarius, Steffen Läusepeltz, Johannes Petrus de Memel, Brandanus Merlinus, Janeser Potorianus, Johann Richter, Wigandus Sechswochius, Servius, Hoffmeister Spinn-Stuben, Lustigerus Wortlibius. Hayn Zeitschrift für Bücherfreunde vol. 12 (1908-09) p. 85; Faber du Faur I:762. Sold not subject to return.
2 parts in one volume. 8
FIRST EDITION. A masterpiece of German Baroque printing and poetry, a chapter of poems by Shepherd of the Pegnitz pp.195-277 is interspersed with curiously printed typographical shapes, forming a guitar, a trefoil, a candle, a scale, a flower vase, a wreath, a tree, a ship and other designs. Additionally the volume is of great importance in the history of German folklore. It is the eccentric recorder of "Rübezahl," a mountain and storm spirit identified with the "Riesengebrige" mountain range between Bohemia and Silesia. The above volume follows his first collection of "Rübezahl" tales Daemonologia Rubinzalii Silesii published 1662. Hans Schultze was a prolific writer and wrote also under the pseudonyms of Petrus Hilarius, Steffen Läusepeltz, Johannes Petrus de Memel, Brandanus Merlinus, Janeser Potorianus, Johann Richter, Wigandus Sechswochius, Servius, Hoffmeister Spinn-Stuben, Lustigerus Wortlibius. Hayn Zeitschrift für Bücherfreunde vol. 12 (1908-09) p. 85; Faber du Faur I:762. Sold not subject to return.