![KNICKKNACKIUS, Gripholdus [i.e. Janus Caecilius FREY (d. 1631)]. Flöia cortum versicale. [No place, no publisher], 1594. Small 4° (186 x 141mm). Title within woodcut border and with woodcut vignette, title ruled in red, one large woodcut initial, 8pp. (evenly browned throughout). [Bound with:]](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/CSK/2006_CSK_04075_0149_000(010811).jpg?w=1)
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KNICKKNACKIUS, Gripholdus [i.e. Janus Caecilius FREY (d. 1631)]. Flöia cortum versicale. [No place, no publisher], 1594. Small 4° (186 x 141mm). Title within woodcut border and with woodcut vignette, title ruled in red, one large woodcut initial, 8pp. (evenly browned throughout). [Bound with:]
Theses de Curnelio bestia crudeli et noxia, sub divi harpocratis praesidio. [No place], Cornelius Tacitus, [no date]. 4° (186 x 141mm). Woodcut vignette on title, title ruled in red, 7pp. (evenly browned, outer margin of A4 creased). 2 works in one volume, 19th-century half morocco (rubbed). Provenance: Lord Johnson (great grandfather of the vendor).
Early and rare edition of the first work, a macaronic verse, first published in 1593 in Hamburg. It is one of the best known German poems of the 16th century written in this manner. Janus C. Frey was professor of philosophy at the Collegium Montaigu in Paris.
Theses de Curnelio bestia crudeli et noxia, sub divi harpocratis praesidio. [No place], Cornelius Tacitus, [no date]. 4° (186 x 141mm). Woodcut vignette on title, title ruled in red, 7pp. (evenly browned, outer margin of A4 creased). 2 works in one volume, 19th-century half morocco (rubbed). Provenance: Lord Johnson (great grandfather of the vendor).
Early and rare edition of the first work, a macaronic verse, first published in 1593 in Hamburg. It is one of the best known German poems of the 16th century written in this manner. Janus C. Frey was professor of philosophy at the Collegium Montaigu in Paris.
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