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ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS. Ein nutzliche vnderwisung eines Christenlichen fürsten wol zu regieren. 1521

ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS. Ein nutzliche vnderwisung eines Christenlichen fürsten wol zu regieren. German translation by Leo Jud. Title with woodcut portrait of Charles V within historiated border. [22], 75, [9] leaves, including blank T4. 4to, 186x146 mm, 19th-century 1/2 vellum, soiled and worn; margins trimmed close without text loss, occasional marginal soiling and dampstaining, scattered marginal pencil markings. Zurich: Christoph Froschouer the Elder, 1521

  • Notes: first edition of this translation of Erasmus's 1516 Latin treatise on the ideal education of a Christian prince, one of the earliest dated productions from the Froschouer press; state of the colophon with "Christophoru[m] Froschouer." Another German version, by Georg Spalatin, was published the same year in Augsburg. Rudolphi 49; Vander Haeghen, page 111. See also lot 112.

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