[Rarebooks] FS: 15th. century treatise on rights of Holy Roman Empire over individual states

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(INCUNABULA) Lupoldus Bambergensis. GERMANORUM VETERUM PRINCIPUM ZELUS ET 
FERVOR IN CHRISTIANUM RELIGIONEM DEIQUE MINISTROS. Basel: Johann Bergmann, de 
Olpe. 15 May 1497. Folio. ff.28. Modern quarter vellum, front and back boards 
with leaf from incunabulum on each, minor dust soiling, a few insignificant small 
spots, some contemporary manuscript marginal notes. Very nice copy.     
$6,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
This early treatise on the rights of the Holy Roman Empire over individual 
states, especially those ruled by German princes, filled a major void in 
international law and international relations. As one of the earliest and most 
important works in this particular field, it subsequently was printed time and time 
again for the next century and a half. Jacob Wimpheling was the editor, and 
has contributed the Dedicatory poem. His colleague, the famed Sebastian Brandt, 
has contributed three poems. Hain-Copinger 2725; Goff L 399; BMC III, 796. The 
very rare first edition; the sole fifteenth century edition.

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