Sale 2468 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, March 8, 2018

200 200 c (REYNARD THE FOX.) Schopper, Hartmann, translator. Opus poeticum de admirabili fallacia et astutia vulpeculae Reinikes. 41 text woodcuts by Virgil Solis; printer’s woodcut device at end. [11] (of [12]), 284 [i. e., 285], [1] (of [3]) leaves; lacks blank last preliminary leaf and 2 blanks at end. 8vo, 139x97 mm, 19th-century red morocco gilt, top of joints worn; contents toned with early underscoring and marginal markings. Frankfurt am Main: (Petrus Fabritius for Sigismund Feyerabend & Simon Huter), 1567 [1,000/2,000] first edition in latin of a 1544 High German version of the popular medieval animal epic. 202 203