Apr 21, 2009 - Sale 2176

Sale 2176 - Lot 86

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
GREFLINGER, GEORG; et al. Ethica Complementoria; das ist, Complementir-Büchlein . . . Mit angefügtem Trenchier-Büchlein, auch züchtigen Tisch- und Leber-Reimen. 25 engraved plates, including one double-page. [2], 232 pages, including engraved additional title (loose, frayed along fore edge). 3 parts in one volume. 12mo, old stiff wrappers; contents toned. Amsterdam, 1675 [titles to second and third parts dated 1677]

Additional Details

Frequently reprinted courtesy manual first published in 1645. This edition also includes a illustrated guide to carving poultry and meats by Georg Philipp Harsdörfer under the pseudonym Andreas Klett, and light verse by Heinricus Schaevius writing as Euphrosine von Sittenbach. Dünnhaupt, Greflinger 7.20 (not noting later date of second and third parts); this edition not in VD17.