![THWROCZ, Johannes de (1435-1489). Chronica Hungarorum. [With:] ROGERIUS. Carmen miserabile super destrucione regni Hungariae per Tartaros facta. Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, for Theobaldus Feger, 3 June 1488.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_16018_0210_001(thwrocz_johannes_de_chronica_hungarorum_with_rogerius_carmen_miserabil053002).jpg?w=1)
![THWROCZ, Johannes de (1435-1489). Chronica Hungarorum. [With:] ROGERIUS. Carmen miserabile super destrucione regni Hungariae per Tartaros facta. Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, for Theobaldus Feger, 3 June 1488.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_16018_0210_002(thwrocz_johannes_de_chronica_hungarorum_with_rogerius_carmen_miserabil053002).jpg?w=1)
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THWROCZ, Johannes de (1435-1489). Chronica Hungarorum. [With:] ROGERIUS. Carmen miserabile super destrucione regni Hungariae per Tartaros facta. Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, for Theobaldus Feger, 3 June 1488.
Second edition, published seventy-five days after the first, of the foremost book so far written on the history of Hungary. This version omits the conquest of Vienna and other Hapsburg lands by the Hungarian king; it may have been considered a controversial topic for the German market. It has more woodcuts than in the previous Brno edition, although printed from fewer blocks. On the recto of the second leaf is a very fine full-page cut representing King Ladislaus in pursuit of the Turks who kidnapped the the bishop of Varasd's daughter. Arnim (1984), Schäfer 197; HC *15518 = H 15516; BMC II 381; Bod-inc T-204; BSB-Ink T-342; ISTC it00361000; Goff T-361.
Quarto (237 x 167mm). 172 leaves only (of 174), without blank leaves v3-4, but with last blank, 66 woodcuts of which three full-page, woodcut printer’s device (faint soiling to first and last few pages mostly, a couple of marginal wormholes). Contemporary blindstamped calf-backed wooden boards, rebacked in later blindstamped pigskin (hinges repaired, upper corner of lower board defective, without clasp, rubbed). Provenance: near contemporary account of Matthias Corvinus’ death in Vienna in 1490 and Vladislaus II of Hungary’s succession (manuscript note on blank v2v dated 1498) – Passau, Augustinians Canons, St Nicolaus (18th-century engraved armorial bookplate) – George S. Richwood (Sotheby’s 1949, lot 498) – Sylvain S. Brunschwig (1882-1970) (green leather booklabel; Rauch 1955, lot 36) – Schweinfurt, Otto Schäfer (monogram).
Second edition, published seventy-five days after the first, of the foremost book so far written on the history of Hungary. This version omits the conquest of Vienna and other Hapsburg lands by the Hungarian king; it may have been considered a controversial topic for the German market. It has more woodcuts than in the previous Brno edition, although printed from fewer blocks. On the recto of the second leaf is a very fine full-page cut representing King Ladislaus in pursuit of the Turks who kidnapped the the bishop of Varasd's daughter. Arnim (1984), Schäfer 197; HC *15518 = H 15516; BMC II 381; Bod-inc T-204; BSB-Ink T-342; ISTC it00361000; Goff T-361.
Quarto (237 x 167mm). 172 leaves only (of 174), without blank leaves v3-4, but with last blank, 66 woodcuts of which three full-page, woodcut printer’s device (faint soiling to first and last few pages mostly, a couple of marginal wormholes). Contemporary blindstamped calf-backed wooden boards, rebacked in later blindstamped pigskin (hinges repaired, upper corner of lower board defective, without clasp, rubbed). Provenance: near contemporary account of Matthias Corvinus’ death in Vienna in 1490 and Vladislaus II of Hungary’s succession (manuscript note on blank v2v dated 1498) – Passau, Augustinians Canons, St Nicolaus (18th-century engraved armorial bookplate) – George S. Richwood (Sotheby’s 1949, lot 498) – Sylvain S. Brunschwig (1882-1970) (green leather booklabel; Rauch 1955, lot 36) – Schweinfurt, Otto Schäfer (monogram).
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