[Rarebooks] FS: Incunabula variant with famous woodcuts & 4 extra leaves

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(INCUNABULA) Brant, Sebastian. STULTIFERA NAVIS [Translated into Latin by 
Jacobus Locher Philomusus]... (Basel): Johann Bergmann, de Olpe. (August 1st) 
1497. 4to. 163 (of 164) leaves, lacking the last leaf which is blank. First 
enlarged Latin edition. See the note below on this very rare issue with 4 
additional leaves (1 large additional woodcut). Illus. with 118 woodcuts, some of which 
are attributed to Albrecht Durer; in this copy all of the woodcuts have been 
colored in a light yellow wash. Bound in full straight grained black morocco, 
gilt (circa 1810), by the London binder J. Faulkner, with his printed binder’s 
ticket. A.e.g. An attractive copy but for some discoloration due to old water 
stains at the top margin of many of the leaves. A few minor marginal repairs. 
19th century bookplate of C. A. and V. Baldwin.     $25,000.00 (trade 
discount allowed)
The second Latin edition printed by Johann Bergmann, de Olpe, who printed the 
first editions in both German (“Das Narrenschiff”), 1494, and Latin, March 
1st, 1497, of the famous “Ship of Fools,” a satire on the follies and vices of 
the times with a wonderful series of large humorous woodcuts. Our edition of 
August 1st, 1497, has additional text by Brant, Thomas Beccadelli and the 
translator, Locher. Always described as complete with 160 leaves (the last blank), 
our copy has 4 additional unnumbered leaves after folio CXLIIII (leaf S8). 
This gathering is signed f (a long s) 4. These 4 added leaves are described in a 
note in GW5061 (referencing a copy in Freiburg), and are in fact added to the 
next edition printed by Johann Bergmann, de Olpe in March 1st, 1498, but are 
very rarely found in the August 1st, 1497 edition. See Goff B1090; HC 3750; GW 
5061.

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