[BRANT (Sebastian)]. Stultifera nauis Narragonice perfection - Lot 425

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[BRANT (Sebastian)]. Stultifera nauis Narragonice perfection - Lot 425
[BRANT (Sebastian)]. Stultifera nauis Narragonice perfectionis nunquæ satis laudata Nauis [...]. Atque iam pridem per Iacobum Locher, cognomento Philomusum. [To the explicit:] In laudatissima Germaniæ vrbe Basiliensi : nuper opera & promotione Iohannis Bergman de Olpe Anno [...] M. CCCCXCVII. Kl. Augusti [Basel, Jean Bergman de Olpe, 1497]. In-4° (150 x 216 mm), soft ivory vellum with small overlays (Honnelaître). 160 ff. (159 + [1 blank]), signed: a-s8 & t-y4 (theoretical composition of the work). 118 woodcuts, some after DÜRER, some repeated. Latin incunabula edition published five months after the first Latin edition (March 1st) of this singular work which was a great success. The author describes the vices of human life by caricaturing the madmen of all social classes of the country that he puts on board a ship. Two leaves lacking: the title (here giloté) and VIII; wetness having attacked the margins and wormholes. Hain, 3749; Proctor, 480; Pellechet, 2821.
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