Sprüchwörter Gemeiner Tütscher nation…nüwlich aber in kommliche ordnung gestellt und gebessert.
Zurich, Eustachius Froschauer [1545].
Two parts in one volume. 8vo. xv, ccxlvii, [3 blank]p., [iv], cxcii leaves.
19th-century red sheep, blind-stamped arms and blind cipher of Wm. Stirling Maxwell, gilt-lettered spine (crown chipped), all edges gilt.
FIRST EDITION IN SWISS-GERMAN, TRANSLATED BY FROSCHAUER. It is the largest of his thirteen books and the only to which he made a literary contribution This is the second printing of this influential collection, in all some seven thousand proverbs. A good copy (trimmed close at the top), early signature of Tiroler Lucas Geiskofler, bookplates of Stirling Maxwell, Keir House and de Guinzbourg.
¶Kaczerowsky, Sebastian Franck Bibliographie A 161; Vischer, Bibliographie der zürcher Druckschriften C 1146; Gratet-Duplessis, Bibliographie parémiologique 541; VD 16 F 2123.
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