Search Results: Titles starting with N from Liber Antiquus

Nuremberg: Georg Merckel, 1553. FOURTH EDITION (1st ed. ca. 1532). Hardcover. Fine. Bound in modern quarter vellum and paste paper over boards. With an unsigned title woodcut (by Georg Pencz?). A tall, broad-margined copy with a few deckled edges preserved. Small natural paper flaw on the final leaf. Bound with a second, anonymous poem, "Klaglied: Deren von Magdeburgk, zu Gott und allen frommen Christen." [Coburg, C. Schnauß], 1551, which has light dampstains. A popular poem on the evils of slander and gossip by the poet and playwright Hans Sachs, an accomplished Meistersinger of the Nuremberg School (Sachs is the title character of Wagner's "Meistersinger"). A shoemaker and guild master by trade, Sachs' songs, plays, and dialogues address the social concerns of his day and the effects of the Reformation on the established social order. Sachs' conception of Slander personified shares affinities with Virgil's figure of "Fama" (gossip). The poem features a remarkable woodcut illustration, in which… Read More

Oxford: And are to be had there: And in London at Mr. S. Millers, at the Star near the West-end of St. Pauls Church-yard. 1677.
Price: $8,500.00
Folio: DIM Collation: [a]2, b4, A-Z4, Aa-Yy4, Zz2, Aaa-Bbb2 (Bbb2 blank and present.) With 16 added engraved plates and an engraved folding map of Oxfordshire.
FIRST EDITION.
An excellent, very tall copy on heavy paper. Bound in contemporary English paneled calf, (nicely rebacked and with repairs to the corners, some mild surface wear. The boards are framed by a double gilt rule, the central compartment with a roll-tooled border and ornate floral tools at the corners, gilt.
The text is illustrated with a large folding map of Oxfordshire and sixteen full-paged engravings of fossils, minerals, plants, the fascinating Enston waterworks, and other marvels and curiosities, by Michael Burghers. Trivial blemishes as follows: Light finger-soiling to lower corner of t.p., light stain in the gutter of first two leaves, clear dampstain to outer margin of leaf B4,… Read More