Der Stat Nurmberg Verneute Refomation.

Description:

Der Stat Nurmberg Verneute Refomation. Nuremberg: [Valentin Geiszler], 1564. First edition of the final codification of the Nuremberg city law, folio, title page printed within elaborate architectural woodcut compartment depicting Moses and the Holy Roman Emperor, large full-page woodcut with personifications of justice, peace, liberty, and municipality with the city of Nuremberg in the background and God above, both woodcuts with monogram M.S., large woodcut initials to begin each section; with extensive manuscript marginalia amending and updating statutes in the text, with an added thirty-five manuscript leaves at the back, with continued emendations up to 1620; bound in contemporary blind-stamped wooden boards, darkened, with modern rebacking and modern metal corners added, lacking clasps, repairs to first and last few leaves, some water stains and tears; a sound copy with signs of heavy use; 12 1/4 x 8 in.

[pi]6, a6, b8 (b8 blank & present),aa-dd6, A-Z6, AA-QQ6, RR8; 35 leaves of manuscript.
Estimate $1,200-1,500


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