Murner (Thomas): Der Schelmen Zunfft Genandt, Frankfurt, beÿ Jacobo de Zetter, 1619, 8vo, 33 engraved illustrations (small dampstains to upper margins) -- Flitner (Ioannes): Nebulo Nebulonum, Hoc Est Iocoseria Modernae Nequitiae Censura, Frankfurt, Iacobum de Zetter, 1620, 8vo, engraved title and 33 illustrations (duplicating those in the first vol.), 2 vols. in one, contemporary sprinkled boards (spine rubbed). [Praz 337; Goedeke II, 216, 20 and 117,241; Landwehr 283; Brunet II, 1293: 'Ouvrage singulier dont les exemplaires sont peu communs']

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Murner (Thomas): Der Schelmen Zunfft Genandt, Frankfurt, beÿ Jacobo de Zetter, 1619, 8vo, 33 engraved illustrations (small dampstains to upper margins) -- Flitner (Ioannes): Nebulo Nebulonum, Hoc Est Iocoseria Modernae Nequitiae Censura, Frankfurt, Iacobum de Zetter, 1620, 8vo, engraved title and 33 illustrations (duplicating those in the first vol.), 2 vols. in one, contemporary sprinkled boards (spine rubbed). [Praz 337; Goedeke II, 216, 20 and 117,241; Landwehr 283; Brunet II, 1293: 'Ouvrage singulier dont les exemplaires sont peu communs']

Lot Essay

First published in 1512, the Schelmenzunft is a satire on general folly in the style of Sebastian Brant's Ship of Fools, remaining popular both in the original German and the Latin translation Nebulo Nebulonum' by Flitner, here printed together.

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