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POGGIO BRACCIOLINI, Gian Francesco (d. 1549). Opera. Strassburg: Johann Schott for Johann Knobloch, 1513.
Two parts in one volume, 2o (280 x 200 mm). Title printed in red and black. Full-page woodcut of Joan killing Amasa by Urs Graf (on p4v), with his monogram, 16 large woodcut initials, of which four, with repeats, by Hans Baldung Grien. (Some marginal worming at beginning, and in quires s-x affecting some letters.) Contemporary blind-rolled and -tooled paneled pigskin over pasteboard (some soiling and wear). Provenance: Johann Friedrich Mayer (1650-1712), Lutheran theologian (signature on title); Sidney Hillman Ehrman (bookplate); acquired from Lawrence Feinberg, 1980.
Although Knobloch published collected works of the renowned humanist Poggio Bracciolini in 1510 and 1511, they contained far fewer works than the present edition and this is the only edition to contain the woodcut by Urs Graf and initials by Hans Baldung Grien. This edition adds 32 texts, including the essay on the misery of the human condition, the translation from the Greek of the sinus of Lucian, and a number of important letters. The Facetiae, a collection of humorous stories, are printed in full. It contains one of the earliest descriptions of the baths at Baden near Zurich. The present collates as per Adams P-1708, ending with H6. Fairfax Murray German 340; Hollstein, Urs Graf 299; Panzer VI:60; Proctor 10272.
Two parts in one volume, 2o (280 x 200 mm). Title printed in red and black. Full-page woodcut of Joan killing Amasa by Urs Graf (on p4v), with his monogram, 16 large woodcut initials, of which four, with repeats, by Hans Baldung Grien. (Some marginal worming at beginning, and in quires s-x affecting some letters.) Contemporary blind-rolled and -tooled paneled pigskin over pasteboard (some soiling and wear). Provenance: Johann Friedrich Mayer (1650-1712), Lutheran theologian (signature on title); Sidney Hillman Ehrman (bookplate); acquired from Lawrence Feinberg, 1980.
Although Knobloch published collected works of the renowned humanist Poggio Bracciolini in 1510 and 1511, they contained far fewer works than the present edition and this is the only edition to contain the woodcut by Urs Graf and initials by Hans Baldung Grien. This edition adds 32 texts, including the essay on the misery of the human condition, the translation from the Greek of the sinus of Lucian, and a number of important letters. The Facetiae, a collection of humorous stories, are printed in full. It contains one of the earliest descriptions of the baths at Baden near Zurich. The present collates as per Adams P-1708, ending with H6. Fairfax Murray German 340; Hollstein, Urs Graf 299; Panzer VI:60; Proctor 10272.