![LASCARINUM, Johannes. Warhaffte Beschreibung dess Einzugs... dess ... Herrn Matthiae dess Ersten ... in ... Nürnberg. Amberg: Michael Forster, 1612. 4° (194 x 148mm). Woodcut coat-of-arms on title and A6, folding engraved plate by Felix Höpfinger. (Dampstaining to inner margins.) Later vellum (stained). Provenance: Guido von Volckamer (bookplates). FIRST EDITION of this poem, written on the occasion of the visit of the recently elected German emperor Matthias I to Nuremberg on July 2, 1612. The finely engraved copperplate, the only known work of the Nuremberg engraver Felix Höpfinger, shows the emperor on horseback. [With:]](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2010/CSK/2010_CSK_05475_0035_000(lascarinum_johannes_warhaffte_beschreibung_dess_einzugs_dess_herrn_mat082913).jpg?w=1)
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LASCARINUM, Johannes. Warhaffte Beschreibung dess Einzugs... dess ... Herrn Matthiae dess Ersten ... in ... Nürnberg. Amberg: Michael Forster, 1612. 4° (194 x 148mm). Woodcut coat-of-arms on title and A6, folding engraved plate by Felix Höpfinger. (Dampstaining to inner margins.) Later vellum (stained). Provenance: Guido von Volckamer (bookplates). FIRST EDITION of this poem, written on the occasion of the visit of the recently elected German emperor Matthias I to Nuremberg on July 2, 1612. The finely engraved copperplate, the only known work of the Nuremberg engraver Felix Höpfinger, shows the emperor on horseback. [With:]
Wahl und Crönungs Handlung, Das ist, Warhafftige Beschreibung, welcher gestalt... Maximilian der Ander, Römischer Keyser... den 20. Septemb. Anno 1562. Frankfurt: Wilhelm Hoffmann, 1610. 4° (192 x 149mm). 9 etchings in text and one folding etched plate (lacking portrait). Contemporary German blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, gilt coat-of-arms on upper cover, brass clasps. Provenance: unidentified coat-of-arms -- Kronburg, Westernach family library (inscription dated 1700 on front free endpaper). Reprint of the 1562 Nuremberg edition commemorating the coronation of Maximilian II. BMC/STC 17th century German W-78; Lipperheide Sba 7 (without the folding plate). [Bound with 3 other works, including:] [ODERBORN, Paul]. Wunderbare, Erschreckliche, Unerhörte Geschichte und warhaffte Historien, Nemlich Des Grossfürsten in der Moschkaw... Iwan Basilowitz ... Leben. Görlitz: Hans Rambau, 1596. 4°. Title and half-page woodcut illustration on title printed in red and black. See Adams O-52 (1585 Latin edition). THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF IVAN THE TERRIBLE (1530-1584); and one other volume by Johannes Olearius. (3)
Wahl und Crönungs Handlung, Das ist, Warhafftige Beschreibung, welcher gestalt... Maximilian der Ander, Römischer Keyser... den 20. Septemb. Anno 1562. Frankfurt: Wilhelm Hoffmann, 1610. 4° (192 x 149mm). 9 etchings in text and one folding etched plate (lacking portrait). Contemporary German blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, gilt coat-of-arms on upper cover, brass clasps. Provenance: unidentified coat-of-arms -- Kronburg, Westernach family library (inscription dated 1700 on front free endpaper). Reprint of the 1562 Nuremberg edition commemorating the coronation of Maximilian II. BMC/STC 17th century German W-78; Lipperheide Sba 7 (without the folding plate). [Bound with 3 other works, including:] [ODERBORN, Paul]. Wunderbare, Erschreckliche, Unerhörte Geschichte und warhaffte Historien, Nemlich Des Grossfürsten in der Moschkaw... Iwan Basilowitz ... Leben. Görlitz: Hans Rambau, 1596. 4°. Title and half-page woodcut illustration on title printed in red and black. See Adams O-52 (1585 Latin edition). THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF IVAN THE TERRIBLE (1530-1584); and one other volume by Johannes Olearius. (3)
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