PETRARCH (FRANCESCO): TROTSPIEGEL IN GLÜCK UND UNGLÜCK. Francisci Petrarche des hochberumpten, furtrefflichen und hochweisen Poeten und Oratorn, zwey Trostbücher ... Jetzt und von newen widerumb zugericht und in Truck verfertiget, Frankfurt, bei Christian Egenolffs Erben, 1572, folio, FIRST EGENOLFF EDITION, Gothic type, titles in red and black, 260 woodcut illustrations after BURGKMAIR (title fingersoiled at margins and with hole at lower outer corner, light browning, occasional spotting, heavier browning on verso of J6 and recto of K1, verso of 2D1 and recto of 2D2, S6 torn with some loss to last 4 lines of text, X6 to Y6 with holes at inner margin, (?) lacking final leaf 2P4) [Not in Adams, Murray or BL]; DE REBUS MEMORANDIS in Teutscher spraach [tr. Stephanus Vigilius]. Der Sieben Weisen in Grecia Sprichworter, kunstlich in Rheimen, durch den sinnreichen Poeten Casparum Bruschium gestellt, Frankfurt, bey Christian Egenolffs seligen Erben, 1566, folio, Gothic type, title in red and black, 5 woodcut illustrations by Burgkmair (title soiled and with library accession label, A6 cleanly torn and repaired, pencil marks on T4-5 (lacking T6, final blank) [BMC of German Books 685; not in Adams, Murray], two works in one vol., old vellum (worn, lacking lower section of spine).

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PETRARCH (FRANCESCO): TROTSPIEGEL IN GLÜCK UND UNGLÜCK. Francisci Petrarche des hochberumpten, furtrefflichen und hochweisen Poeten und Oratorn, zwey Trostbücher ... Jetzt und von newen widerumb zugericht und in Truck verfertiget, Frankfurt, bei Christian Egenolffs Erben, 1572, folio, FIRST EGENOLFF EDITION, Gothic type, titles in red and black, 260 woodcut illustrations after BURGKMAIR (title fingersoiled at margins and with hole at lower outer corner, light browning, occasional spotting, heavier browning on verso of J6 and recto of K1, verso of 2D1 and recto of 2D2, S6 torn with some loss to last 4 lines of text, X6 to Y6 with holes at inner margin, (?) lacking final leaf 2P4) [Not in Adams, Murray or BL]; DE REBUS MEMORANDIS in Teutscher spraach [tr. Stephanus Vigilius]. Der Sieben Weisen in Grecia Sprichworter, kunstlich in Rheimen, durch den sinnreichen Poeten Casparum Bruschium gestellt, Frankfurt, bey Christian Egenolffs seligen Erben, 1566, folio, Gothic type, title in red and black, 5 woodcut illustrations by Burgkmair (title soiled and with library accession label, A6 cleanly torn and repaired, pencil marks on T4-5 (lacking T6, final blank) [BMC of German Books 685; not in Adams, Murray], two works in one vol., old vellum (worn, lacking lower section of spine).

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