Dec 04, 2006 - Sale 2096

Sale 2096 - Lot 221

Price Realized: $ 540
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
ALOFRESANT of Rhodes, attributed to. Keyserliche Practika und prognostication, auss allen alten weissagungen, von CCC jarn her zusamen geschriben, und mit diser zeit verglichen. [8] leaves. 4to, disbound; scattered dark stains, some early underscoring and marginalia. Np, circa 1530?

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Political pamphlet in the guise of the prophecy of a suppositious Turkish astronomer and convert to Christianity, originally published in 1519 in Latin, translated into German the same year, and into French and Dutch in 1528. This is one of 2 editions published circa 1530 of an enlarged German version. The predictions concern the successors of Duke John the Fearless of Burgundy and relations between France, Burgundy, and the Holy Roman Empire in anticipation of an Ottoman invasion. Roloff, ed., Die Deutsche Literatur. Reihe II, Abt. A, Bd. 2., pages 213-220.