[Illustrium Virorum Epistolae Hebraicae, Graecae et Latinae]

Estimate: $600–$900
Hammer price: $750

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author

(REUCHLIN, JOHANNES).

printer

Th. Anshelm

Place

Hagenau

Publication

1514

Description

Second edition

references

J. Benzing, Bibliographie der Schriften Johannes Reuchlin in 15 u. 16 Jahrhundert (1955) no. 137; this edition not in Adams

summary

Celebrated defense of Reuchlin by various eminent German scholars written amidst his lengthy dispute with Johannes Pfefferkorn. The first edition of this work (also printed by Anshelm, though in only ff.52) appeared a few months before this second, Tübingen edition. See S.A. Hirsch, Johann Pfefferkorn and the Battle of the Books, in: A Book of Essays (1905) pp.108-09

ff.111 (of 113) lacks title and final blank, damp-soiled with some loss, paper repairs, modern half-calf, 4to

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