Lot n° 1204

HUTTEN, Ulrich von Outis [Greek]. Nemo. October 1518Louvain,Dirk Martens,4to, old calf (18th c. ?, rebacked), red edges, [12] ff. (title soiled, sm. def. in fore-edge border, old strengthening of fore-edge margins). Good copy.

Estimation : 3500 / 5000
Adjudication : 6500 €
Description
Extr. rare ed. (no copy in Belgian libraries) of the satirical poem "Nemo" II of the German humanist Hutten (1488-1523), 1st publ. Augsburg (August) 1518. It is a revised and extended version of an earlier poem ("Nemo" I, 1510). Elaborate woodcut title copied after the original Augsburg ed., showing the Polyphemus scene in Homer’s Odyssey. Large woodcut mark at the end. Old ms. note on verso of title. A few cont. marg. annotations (cropped).
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