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HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE - BINDING Das Buch des heiligen römischen reichs unnderhalltung, FIRST EDITION, [Munich, Hans Schobster, 3 February, 1501] image 1
HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE - BINDING Das Buch des heiligen römischen reichs unnderhalltung, FIRST EDITION, [Munich, Hans Schobster, 3 February, 1501] image 2
THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE KENNETH JOHN HEWETT

K.J. Hewett (1919-1994) was a renowned London dealer in ethnographic art and antiquities. Other books from his library were offered in these rooms on 21 March 2018.
Lot 197

HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE - BINDING
Das Buch des heiligen römischen reichs unnderhalltung, FIRST EDITION, [Munich, Hans Schobster, 3 February, 1501]

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
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HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE - BINDING

Das Buch des heiligen römischen reichs unnderhalltung, FIRST EDITION, third variant (see footnote), 90 leaves (including blank A8), 39 lines, gothic letter, large woodcut of the Imperial arms on the title, and woodcut of Bavarian Ducal arms on the colophon leaf, contemporary Southern German (?Augsburg) blindstamped deerskin over wooden boards, the fore-edge bevelled, sides with pairs of triple fillets enclosing a wide Forest Deer Hunt roll, each cover with differing central panel, that on the upper including the device of an Imperial Eagle clutching a Cross, and with the legend "Newe Gesatzt" in upper border, spine in 4 compartments decorated with a double-rose tool, gilt metal catches and clasps (without strap), one corner repaired, old cracks on spine repaired with loss to head and foot, preserved in cloth solander box [VBD D688], folio (265 x 185mm.), [Munich, Hans Schobster, 3 February, 1501]

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A CONTEMPORARY SOUTHERN GERMAN BINDING, DECORATED WITH A FOREST DEER HUNT ROLL.

The earliest printed collection of laws relating to the administration of the Holy Roman Empire, summarising those made during the reign of Frederick III, and concluding with the reforms passed at the Diet of Augsburg in 1500, during the reign of Maximilian I. Shortly after the Diet the Augsburg printer Hans Schobser moved his press to Munich, this being the first publication he issued from there. VDB notes three variant issues, all of the same date, the present copy being the third of their listing, with at least three cancels (a1, and I7-8). For another example of the distinctive Forest Deer Hunt roll on the binding see Davis Gift II, no.324

Provenance: Christoff Fueger, with his dated inscription "Kayser Fridrichs Reformazion hab ich Cristoff fueger gekaufft ano 1500 [sic]" inside upper cover; Franz von Hauslab (1798-1883), tutor to the Emperor Franz Joseph I, with his partially erased pressmark 'T.III.6.D.', and pencilled bibliographical notes; Liechtenstein family library, small ink stamp at foot of title-page; Prince Franz Josef von Liechtenstein, whose library was acquired in 1949 by H.P. Kraus; William Schab, Catalogue 25, item 215; K.J. Hewett, bookplate.

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