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