Ship of Fools, Latin.- Brant (Sebastian) Stultifera navis, translated by Jacobus Locher, collation: A-B6 C-H4.6 I-K4 L-V6.4 x-y6, 112 ff., variable lines, Gothic and Roman type, 118 woodcuts, G1 paper flaw, just touching part of the odd letter, P1 small repair to lower corner, closely trimmed at head, touching the odd headline, lightly browned, some spotting and staining, 19th century dark green morocco, gilt, by John Clarke (according to signature on front endpaper, 'Jno; Clarke, Binder', possibly by him), neatly rebacked, preserving richly gilt spine in compartments with rich floral and foliage decoration, covers with quintuple filet borders with concentric circle corner-pieces, rubbed at extremities, g.e., 4to (202 x 142mm.), Strasbourg, Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, 1 June, 1497. ⁂ Early and scarce in commerce Latin edition of the 'first original work by a German which passed into world literature...[and which] played an important part in European Literature, and helped to blaze the trail that leads from medieval allegory to modern satire, drama and the novel of character' (PMM). Provenance: E. Horrn Frost (armorial bookplate and ink signature); Elias Henry Frost, Charleston, South Carolina, April, 1852 (ink inscription to foot of verso of y3). References: ISTC ib01089000; BMC I, 112; Bod-inc B-509; Goff B1089; HC 3749*; BSB-Ink B-819; GW 5057.; PMM 37 (first edition).
Ship of Fools, Latin.- Brant (Sebastian) Stultifera navis, translated by Jacobus Locher, collation: A-B6 C-H4.6 I-K4 L-V6.4 x-y6, 112 ff., variable lines, Gothic and Roman type, 118 woodcuts, G1 paper flaw, just touching part of the odd letter, P1 small repair to lower corner, closely trimmed at head, touching the odd headline, lightly browned, some spotting and staining, 19th century dark green morocco, gilt, by John Clarke (according to signature on front endpaper, 'Jno; Clarke, Binder', possibly by him), neatly rebacked, preserving richly gilt spine in compartments with rich floral and foliage decoration, covers with quintuple filet borders with concentric circle corner-pieces, rubbed at extremities, g.e., 4to (202 x 142mm.), Strasbourg, Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, 1 June, 1497. ⁂ Early and scarce in commerce Latin edition of the 'first original work by a German which passed into world literature...[and which] played an important part in European Literature, and helped to blaze the trail that leads from medieval allegory to modern satire, drama and the novel of character' (PMM). Provenance: E. Horrn Frost (armorial bookplate and ink signature); Elias Henry Frost, Charleston, South Carolina, April, 1852 (ink inscription to foot of verso of y3). References: ISTC ib01089000; BMC I, 112; Bod-inc B-509; Goff B1089; HC 3749*; BSB-Ink B-819; GW 5057.; PMM 37 (first edition).
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