Author: Lazius, Wolfgang (1514-1565)
Title: DE GENTIUM ALIQUOT MIGRATIONIBUS, SEDIBUS FIXIS, RELIQUIS, Linguarumque initiis & immutationibus ac dialectis, Libri XII.
Description: Frankfurt am Main, C. Marnius & J. Aubrius apud Andreae Wecheli heredes. 1600 Large woodcut illustrations (21) in text (12 full-page) + 2 foliated head-pieces with entwined figures + decorated initials. . Folio vellum, spine gilt-titled on 5 raised bands, overlapping original vellum covers on each side with more recent vellum tips. Titlepage with Wechel's 10cm. Emblem of winged horse, cornucopia & caduceus (repeated on last page). Text in Latin with some Hebrew & Greek. Collated complete, 675pp +[35]pp Index + final leaf with colophon. TP has 2 small ink stamps to fore-edge margin, "Libraria Colonia" in red & "Schlumberger Archiv" in purple, which are repeated on final leaves. Text area of most pages heavily browned, some brown spotting in margins, but all text easily readable. Middle of book has small area of worm holes covering less than 2cm in blank gutter area of 13 leaves, and another area of 10 leaves with wormhole incursion into max of 3 letters of text. *Wolfgang Lazius was a native of Vienna and official historian to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I. He amassed many documents from libraries across the Empire during his life, which probably informed this book. First published in Basel 1557. This is the third edition (referenced by Adams L349).

Keywords: history Holy Roman Empire travel migrations genealogy


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