Provenance: Säfstaholm castle

Albert Krantz:

Rerum Germanicarum historici clariss. Saxonia. De Saxonicae gentis vetusta origine, longinquis expeditionibus susceptis, & bellis domi pro libertate diu fortiterque gestis. […] Cum prefatione D. Nicolai Cisneri.

Frankfurt am Main, apud A. Wechelum, 1575. Folio. (33 x 19,5 cms.) [24] + 388 pp. Woodcut printer’s device on title and final page.

Somewhat worn and soiled contemporary vellum, joints slightly cracked at head and foot, front cover warped, large dampstain to first fifty pages, some browning of text. Old inscription to front fly-leaf. Provenance: the Bonde family, Säfstaholm castle, with bookplate.

VD16 K 2259. One of about ten 16th-century editions, the first of which appeared in Cologne, 1520.

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