Lot 1220
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Epitome historiae Basiliensis, praeter totius Rauricae descriptionem, urbis primordia, antiquitates, res memorandas, clarorum ciuium monumenta, caeteraque [...] cum Episcoporum Basiliensium catalogo. Accessit his Aeneae Sylvii, qui postea Pius II. Pontifex fuit, Basilea, nuspiam antehac edita.
WURSTISEN, Christian
€ 800 / 900
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Lot description
Basel, S. Henricpetri, March 1577
8vo: [24]-308-30-[2] pp. (paper age-toned, title soiled).
Old limp marbl. boards (rubbed, joints splitting).
Rare early history of Basel by the preacher, mathematics professor, and university librarian Chr. Wurstisen (1544-1588). It was reprinted in the "Scriptores rerum Basiliensium minores" (1752, German translation 1757). The "Epitome" includes the 1st ed. of a short description of Basel by the famous humanist Piccolomini Pope Pius II (1405-1464). Ill. with a folding woodcut map of Basel and a 2nd woodcut map "Icon portae Petrea in Ravracorum & Auenticorum confinibus". Woodcut mark at the end.
Ref. VD16 W-4674. - Adams W-265. - STC German (BL) 928.
Prov. Ownership entry of the Bruges Jesuits (a gift from the Ghent bishop Carolus van den Bosch, 1665).
Lot 1220
Epitome historiae Basiliensis, praeter totius Rauricae descriptionem, urbis primordia, antiquitates, res memorandas, clarorum ciuium monumenta, caeteraque [...] cum Episcoporum Basiliensium catalogo. Accessit his Aeneae Sylvii, qui postea Pius II. Pontifex fuit, Basilea, nuspiam antehac edita.
WURSTISEN, Christian