ADELPHUS, Johannes Mülich (d.1522). Die Türckisch Chronica von irem ursprung anefang und regiment biss uff dise zeit sampt yren kriegen und streyten mit den christen begangen erbämlich zu lesen . Strassburg: Martin Flach, Mccccviii [i.e. 1508]. 2° (300 x 205mm). 24 half-page woodcuts, printer's device at end. (Minor staining or finger soiling throughout, slight marginal repair in first and last leaves, two tears repaired without loss.) Modern antique-style calf-backed wooden boards, brass clasps. FIRST EDITION of this compilation of various histories of the wars against the Turks, based mainly on Jörg von Nürnberg's Geschichte von den Türcken . The book contains also a three-page poem on the fall of Rhodes. The author, who wrote and translated a number of works, was the town physician of Schaffhausen; he dedicates this volume to Herrn Petermann Erterlin, Gerichtsschreiber zu Lutzern. Index Aureliensis *100588 (recording only copies at Budapest and Colmar). The book was reprinted in 1513 and 1516. Cf. Kristeller, Die Strassburger Bücher-Illustration 513 (for the 1513 edition).
ADELPHUS, Johannes Mülich (d.1522). Die Türckisch Chronica von irem ursprung anefang und regiment biss uff dise zeit sampt yren kriegen und streyten mit den christen begangen erbämlich zu lesen . Strassburg: Martin Flach, Mccccviii [i.e. 1508]. 2° (300 x 205mm). 24 half-page woodcuts, printer's device at end. (Minor staining or finger soiling throughout, slight marginal repair in first and last leaves, two tears repaired without loss.) Modern antique-style calf-backed wooden boards, brass clasps. FIRST EDITION of this compilation of various histories of the wars against the Turks, based mainly on Jörg von Nürnberg's Geschichte von den Türcken . The book contains also a three-page poem on the fall of Rhodes. The author, who wrote and translated a number of works, was the town physician of Schaffhausen; he dedicates this volume to Herrn Petermann Erterlin, Gerichtsschreiber zu Lutzern. Index Aureliensis *100588 (recording only copies at Budapest and Colmar). The book was reprinted in 1513 and 1516. Cf. Kristeller, Die Strassburger Bücher-Illustration 513 (for the 1513 edition).
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