- Complexion Natür un eigenschafft eines yeden menschen zu Erfaren
Mainz, bey Peter Jordan, 1532, First Edition. Hard Cover, Small 4to, 12 Leaves. Ill.: "MF". Very Good, with Repair/No Jacket.¶ A, A1, A2, A3, A4, B1, B2, B3, B4, C1, C2, C3, C4. 24 Pp. [12 leaves] Small flaw at the bottom of B1 affecting a few words on a line on one side, and words in 3 lines on the other. Verso of the title page has the full-page astrological and pictorial woodcut showing Mars, Venus and Saturn with a star bearing their symbols in front of their pubes. This woodcut is repeated from the publication "Geomantia" where it appears, signed in the wood by "MF." The god/planets stand behind a cow and a ram is in the sky behind them. Here the initials have been removed, but the plate is the same. Christian Egenolph, printer of Geomantia probably sold the block to Peter Jordan. The large emblematic woodcut on the title page is repeated on the recto of the last leaf as a part of the colophon together with the phrase "Zu Mainz zuer Buelden Lederhosen." This astrological work is unnoted in Houzeau & Lancaster, not at KVK, Caillet, Dorbon, Ernst Weil, Biblioteca Astrologia, and is rare. Modern Vellum, A clean, bright copy with the woodcuts beautifully printed, with the flawed page completed. Later vellum..
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