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Stamler, Johannes (fl. circa 1500) Dyalogus de Diversarum Gencium Sectis et Mundi Regionibus.
Augsburg: Erhard Oeglin & Georg Nadler, 1508.
First edition, small folio, edited by Wolfgang Aittinger; large illustrated xylographic title by Hans Burgkmair printed on both sides of the same sheet (bottom outside corner torn away and restored with missing area of the woodcut made up in pen facsimile); bound in modern half leather with printed waste covering the boards and parchment reinforced corners, neatly done; water stains to contents; somewhat clumsily printed and trimmed, with cropping to the final lines of the notes at the foot of c2 with loss; 12 x 8 1/4 in.
In the author's prefatory letter, addressed to Jakob Locher, he mentions the discoveries of Columbus and Vespucci. "I make no mention of the islands newly discovered, however, I send you the little treatises of Christopher Columbus and Albert Vespucci, to whom our age is greatly indebted, on the newly discovered world." (cf. a3 verso, beginning, "De insulis aute[m] inventis mentione[m] nulla[m] facio.") Stamler's work is written in verse and organized into fourteen parts. He discusses the religious practices of Jews, Saracens, Turks, and Tartars.
Harrisse 51; Alden & Landis 508/19; Sabin 90127; Church 26.
