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Reisch, Gregor (c. 1467-1525) Margarita Philosophica.
Basel: Michael Furterius, 1517.
Thick quarto volume with title page printed in red and black within an elaborate woodcut border incorporating cherubs; large woodcut on verso of title page, full-page and text woodcut illustrations throughout; folding woodcut in signature n torn at the fold with loss to about half the sheet; lacking preliminary leaf a8, text leaf v8, and final 2 leaves O7 & O8; A2 torn with loss; bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards; contemporary marginalia in the text; (lacking clasps, title page torn and repaired from verso with losses; other folds and damage to some leaves; binding loosening somewhat but intact and unsophisticated);
Adams R-336.
Reisch's first printed encyclopedia contains all important knowledge available to a well-educated humanist of this period. The text is presented in the form of a dialogue of twelve chapters between student and master and is adorned with many explanatory and allegorical illustrations so characteristic of the period.
Ex libris Professor, Astronomer, Historian & Bibliophile Owen Gingerich.
