PETRARCA. Trostspiegel in Glück und Unglück... Frankfurt, Wi - Lot 190

PETRARCA. Trostspiegel in Glück und Unglück... Frankfurt, Widow of Johann Bringer for Vincent Steinmayers, 1620. Gothic folio, Bradel half-vellum with corners, red edges (modern binding). A late edition of this German translation of *De remediis* or *Remedies for the Two Fortunes*, an important moral treatise written by Petrarch. Superb illustrations, comprising 260 large woodcuts by Hans Weiditz originally used for the German edition of the book published in 1532 in Augsburg. Double title page, with a rectangular cutout at the top that cuts off the ends of the decorative initial. A tear with no loss in the lower margin of leaves M1 and Ee4 (repaired).

Estimate:£834.66

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