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REINEKE DE VOS MIT DEM KOKER. Wultu wetten der Werlde staat, so liss dit boek, dat is goed rhat. Wulfenbüttel, Frytag, 1711.

Estimation : 700 / 800
Adjudication : Invendu
Description
In-4° : frontispiece, [18]-380 pp. (frontispiece underlaid with lower left corner partly ripped off and restored in pen, light foxing throughout).
Contemporary binding : full vellum, manuscript title on flat spine.
First scholarly edition of the famous Reynard the Fox as edited by Friedrich A. Hackmann, professor at Helmstadt, giving the text of the first edition in Low German (Lübeck, 1498; cf. p. 300).
In our edition, the Reynard-epic is followed by the "Koker", a collection of proverbs in verse, arranged alphabetically, which Hackmann took from the work of Herman Bote (c. 1460-c. 1520), a popular author, custom house servant and innkeeper at Braunschweig.
With large woodcut frontispiece figuring Reynard throwing arrows at the court of animals.
# Menke VI, 5.
Provenance : Garmt Stuiveling (1907-1985), Dutch literary author and social reformer (bookplate).
Première édition du Roman du Renard dans la version de l'édition incunable (Lübeck, 1498) avec les notes du prof. Hackmann. Suivie d'une série de dictons populaires. Curieux frontispice (frsp. avec coin infér. manquant restauré et collé en plein sur f. de support). Rel. plein vélin de l'époque.
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