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Ryd, Valerius Anshelm (c.1475-1546/47).
Catalogus annorum et principium
geminus ab homine conditio usque in presentem... 1540 annum.
Folio. 6 prelim. & 68 numb. leaves. With different printer's marks on title and at end, and 139 smaller and larger woodcuts in the text (including repeats). Berne, Mathias Apiarius, 1540.
First edition of the brief world chronicle compiled by the Bernese humanist and historian, Valerius Anshelm Ryd. It is preceded by Ryd's dedication to the City Council of Berne; a short tract «De usu et utilitate historiarum & quo iuditio legendae sint» by Eberhard of Rümlang; a letter to the reader by Johannes Telor: and a «Carmen ad lectorem» by Hieronymus Frick.
This fine work of Mathias Apiarius, the first typographer of Berne, is illustrated with 139 smaller and larger woodcuts (including some repeats), of which several are by the Master I. K, today identified with Jacob Kallenberg, a painter and craftsman from Berne active between 1535 and 1565 (Thieme-Becker XIX, 470). One of the larger cuts, showing the Nativity, is signed CHvF (pro-bably Claus Hagenbach; cf. Nagler, Monogr., II, no. 160).
Bound with
Stumpf, Johann (1500-1576). Des grossen gemeinen Conciliums zu Costentz... beschrey-bung... Item von Johann Hussen vnnd Hieronymovon Prag.. Sampt warhaffter beschreybung des Kriegs... zwüschen Keyser Sigmunden nd Hertzog Fridrychen von Oesterreych...
Zürich, Christoph Froschauer, 1541.
[12], 174 leaves.
First edition of this valuable chronicle of the Council of Constance, drawn from various manuscript and printed sources, and supplemented with an extensive index and a detailed list of all the participants.
Condition: title to first work browned, soiled and with ink annotation, Contemporary blind-stamped half-pigskin over wooden boards; two clasps.
320mm x 220mm.
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