Cuspinian (Johannes): De Caesaribus atque Imperatoribus Romanis Opus, [Strasbourg, C. Mylius], 1540, folio, FIRST EDITION, CASPAR BRUSCHIUS'S COPY with ownership inscription in his hand on the title page and his marginal notes, Roman type, woodcut publisher's device on title and colophon, woodcut portrait medallions (title wormed at outer margin slightly affecting inscription, wormhole at upper margin of preliminaries, verso of X3 slightly soiled, small ink stain on 2H4, final leaf restored at corner), contemporary blind-stamped pigskin (rebacked, clasps lacking). [Adams C3134; Ritter 606]

细节

Cuspinian (Johannes): De Caesaribus atque Imperatoribus Romanis Opus, [Strasbourg, C. Mylius], 1540, folio, FIRST EDITION, CASPAR BRUSCHIUS'S COPY with ownership inscription in his hand on the title page and his marginal notes, Roman type, woodcut publisher's device on title and colophon, woodcut portrait medallions (title wormed at outer margin slightly affecting inscription, wormhole at upper margin of preliminaries, verso of X3 slightly soiled, small ink stain on 2H4, final leaf restored at corner), contemporary blind-stamped pigskin (rebacked, clasps lacking). [Adams C3134; Ritter 606]

拍品专文

Joannes Cuspinian (1473-1529), humanist, poet and statesman, was curator of the University of Vienna, attorney for that city and chairman of the imperial privy council. The ablest historian of the Emperor Maximilian's circle, he offered The History of the Emperors to Koberger who rejected it, and it was not published until 1540. Its great value lies in the fact that Cuspinian used original sources such as documents and inscriptions. Caspar Bruschius (1518-59), the owner of this copy, was a pupil of Melanchthon and himself a well-known historian.