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18000 SEK

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WITH FAMOUS PORTRAIT BY DÜRER. PIRCKHEIMER, WILLIBALD. Opera politica, historica, philologica et epistolica cum Alberti Dureri... vulgo apellis Germanici dicti, figuris Aeneis... / Wilibald Pirckheimer. Frankfurt am Main (Johann Bringer for Jacob Fischer) 1610.

Folio (315x208 mm). (18), 406, (21) pp. (Last page Errata leaf). Engraved portrait of Pirckheimer by Albrecht Dürer. Title printed in red and black with woodcut device. 4 engraved plates, large several times folded engraved plate after Dürer of a chariot [Grossem Triumphwagen] (complete, plates with browned or spotted margins, 1 small plate with small marginal paper loss, folding plate browned and somewhat frail).
Contemporary fine full calf binding with richly gilt decorated boards, Justitia in the center surrounde by wide gilt borders and ornaments in the corners, partly worn and rubbed, lacking bands, renovated corners, old gilt spine mounted, split inner joint, gilt decorated edges. Text partly browned

VD17 23:230257T. Meder 103, Bartsch106A (portrait). First and only edition commissioned by the family Imhof. It deals with history, politics and philology.
With the famous engraved portrait of Albrecht Durer from 1524.
Willibald Pirckheimer (1470-1530), German Renaissance humanist and lawyer, close friend of Albrecht Dürer and also of Erasmus Roterodamus.
Photo.

Auktionsnummer:

6264

Datum:

2015-06-16