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ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS. Ein nutzliche vnderwisung eines Christenlichen fürsten wol zu regieren. German translation by Leo Jud. Title with woodcut portrait of Charles V within historiated border. [22], 75, [9] leaves, including blank T4. 4to, 186x146 mm, 19th-century 1/2 vellum, soiled and worn; margins trimmed close without text loss, occasional marginal soiling and dampstaining, scattered marginal pencil markings. Zurich: Christoph Froschouer the Elder, 1521
first edition of this translation of Erasmus's 1516 Latin treatise on the ideal education of a Christian prince, one of the earliest dated productions from the Froschouer press; state of the colophon with "Christophoru[m] Froschouer." Another German version, by Georg Spalatin, was published the same year in Augsburg. Rudolphi 49; Vander Haeghen, page 111. See also lot 112.
