Sale: 359 / Rare Books including Marine Art, Nov. 16./17. 2009 in Hamburg Lot 133

Johann Fichard - Der Statt Franckenfurt am Mayn erneuwerte Reformation. 1578


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Johann Fichard
Der Statt Franckenfurt am Mayn erneuwerte Reformation. 1578
Estimate:
€ 1,000 / $ 1,070
Sold:
€ 900 / $ 963

(incl. surcharge)
[Fichard, Joh.], Der Statt Franckenfurt erneuwerte Reformation. With broad figural woodcut borders on titlel, 1 woodcut plate by Jost Amman (with small view of Frankfurt in background) and 1 doublepage-sized woodcut genealogy and woodcut printer's mark towards the end. Frankfurt, S. Feyerabend for G. Rab 1578. 19th century half vellum. Folio. 17 unnumbered ll. (incl. woodcut plates), 261 (recte 260) numb. ll.
VD 16, F 2298. - Stintzing/Landsberg I, 597f. - Becker, Amman 153, 52. - Rare first edition of the Frankfurt reformation in Johann Fichard's adaptation. Simultaneously published under the slightly different title ("Franckenfurt am Mayn"). The work is "recognized as the most comprehensive of all municipal reforms, it is due to this accomplishment that Fichard was praised Solon and Lykurg of Frankfurt by his contemporaries." (Kleinheyer/Schröder p. 91) - The double page sized plate shows the Baum der Sippschafft nach Keyserlichem Rechten. - Missing after VD 16 two ll. Endpapers, after other bibliographical copies only 1 l. or with 17 ll. complete. This copy with 17 ll. without gap in text. - Skightly browned, partly slightly waterstained and few fingerstains, first 6 ll. with small backed trace of damp, 2 ll. clotted in gutter, the genealogy plate trimmed close, inserted on recent guard and with backed tears. Binding slightly stained.




133
Johann Fichard
Der Statt Franckenfurt am Mayn erneuwerte Reformation. 1578
Estimate:
€ 1,000 / $ 1,070
Sold:
€ 900 / $ 963

(incl. surcharge)