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HEMMERLIN, Felix (1388/89-1460). De nobilitate et rusticitate dialogus et alia opuscula. [Strasbourg: Johann Prüss, c.1500].
First edition of the best known of Hemmerlin’s polemical works. During the Old Zurich War of the 1440s, Hemmerlin vehemently supported the alliance between the city and Austria against the Swiss Confederation. His attacks against the Swiss in this work ultimately led to his imprisonment once the conflict had ended. A tall, fresh copy preserving several deckle edges. H *8426; GW 12189; BMC I 129; Bod-inc H-009; BSB-Ink H-41; ISTC ih00015000; Goff H-15.
Chancery folio (285 x 201mm). 156 leaves, large woodcut depicting the wheel of fortune on m5r (a few minor wormholes, small stain on title and extreme outer margin of last 2 leaves). Contemporary Nuremberg quarter blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards by the successor to the Minorite monastery bindery [Kyriss 121, EBDB w002085], metal clasps, manuscript title along lower edge. Provenance: label removed from title – 19th-century bibliographical reference on front endpaper.
First edition of the best known of Hemmerlin’s polemical works. During the Old Zurich War of the 1440s, Hemmerlin vehemently supported the alliance between the city and Austria against the Swiss Confederation. His attacks against the Swiss in this work ultimately led to his imprisonment once the conflict had ended. A tall, fresh copy preserving several deckle edges. H *8426; GW 12189; BMC I 129; Bod-inc H-009; BSB-Ink H-41; ISTC ih00015000; Goff H-15.
Chancery folio (285 x 201mm). 156 leaves, large woodcut depicting the wheel of fortune on m5r (a few minor wormholes, small stain on title and extreme outer margin of last 2 leaves). Contemporary Nuremberg quarter blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards by the successor to the Minorite monastery bindery [Kyriss 121, EBDB w002085], metal clasps, manuscript title along lower edge. Provenance: label removed from title – 19th-century bibliographical reference on front endpaper.
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