GELENIUS, Sigismund (1497-1554, editore). - Notitia utraque cum orientis tum occidentis. - De rebus bellicis. - Altercatio Hadriani Augusti et Epicteti Philosophi. Basel: Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Episcopus, 1552. First illustrated edition with numerous woodcuts. Folio (330 x 215mm). Printer's device on title, 106 woodcut illustrations, including 85 full-page, woodcut initials (lacking final leaf with printer's device, stains, a few traces of woodworm, and final flyleaf repaired). Contemporary vellum over boards decorated in blind, label on spine (light stains and lightly rubbed). Provenance: some manuscript annotations and tipped in notes on endleaves. Adams N354; BMC of German Books 747.

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