EGINHARDUS, Abbot of Seligenstadt. Vita et gesta Karoli Magni. [Cologne]: Johann Soter, 1521. 4° (197 x 136mm), large engraved portraits of Charlemagne and Charles V within borders on title, woodcut device on last page (the initial two leaves and the final leaf with neat repair at inner margin, lower margin of title trimmed, just touching the letterpress privilege, wormhole in lower blank margins as far as i4). Modern half vellum. Provenance: a few early marginalia. FIRST EDITION, edited by Graf Hermann von Neuenahr. Einhard's Life of Charlemagne is 'one of the most distinguished historical biographies of the whole medieval period', (H. E. Barnes). Graesse II. 465; Adams E74; VD-16 E726.