Item #1434 Von Hülff und Rath in Allem anligen. Des hochweisen fürtreflichen Francisci Petrarche zwei Trost bücher Von Artznei beydes des gůten und widerwertigen Glücks. Francesco Petrarca, Hans Weiditz, Sebastian Brant, Stephan Vigilius, Johannes Pinicianus.
Von Hülff und Rath in Allem anligen. Des hochweisen fürtreflichen Francisci Petrarche zwei Trost bücher Von Artznei beydes des gůten und widerwertigen Glücks.
Von Hülff und Rath in Allem anligen. Des hochweisen fürtreflichen Francisci Petrarche zwei Trost bücher Von Artznei beydes des gůten und widerwertigen Glücks.
Von Hülff und Rath in Allem anligen. Des hochweisen fürtreflichen Francisci Petrarche zwei Trost bücher Von Artznei beydes des gůten und widerwertigen Glücks.
Von Hülff und Rath in Allem anligen. Des hochweisen fürtreflichen Francisci Petrarche zwei Trost bücher Von Artznei beydes des gůten und widerwertigen Glücks.
An Important Renaissance Woodcut Book

Von Hülff und Rath in Allem anligen. Des hochweisen fürtreflichen Francisci Petrarche zwei Trost bücher Von Artznei beydes des gůten und widerwertigen Glücks.

Zu Franckfurt [Frankfurt]: Bei Chr. Egenolff [Christian Egenolff], (Jm Jenner. An. M.D.LI.) [1551]. First Frankfurt edition. In blind stamped half leather binding with four raised bands. Panels covered with paste paper. Large woodcut illustration on the title page and approximately 250 woodcut illustrations. Collation: #6, A–Z6, Aa–Oo6. (6), CCXXII leaves [ie: (6), I–LXIIII, XLV, LXVI–CIX, CXI–CXV, CXV–CCXXII]. Few notes and underlines in contemporary neat hand. Some pages tanned. Artistically restored. Overall in fine condition.

An important German woodcut book of the Renaissance, the first Egenolff edition of the German translation of Petrarca’s De remediis utriusque fortunae.

Prefaced in verse and edited by Sebastian Brant, translated by Stephan Vigilius and the distichs at the head of each chapter were written by Johannes Pinicianus.

The 260 splendid woodcuts were created by the so-called “Petrarca-master” Hans Weiditz, who was commissioned by printers of Augsburg for the first German edition of the book in 1532. Some of the woodcuts also appeared in different Cicero translation printed in Augsburg until the blocks were eventually purchased by Egenolff, the publisher of the present edition, who used them in at least four editions. They were later passed from one Frankfurt printer to another, appearing in several further editions until the beginning of the 17th century.

Ref.: VD16 P 1727; USTC 703964; Muther 886; Dodgson II, 157; Musper 33 L 198; Rottinger 72, 24; Early Flemish and German Woodcuts II, 157:7.

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Price: €4,500.00