[Rarebooks] FS: Four 16th c. works on Latin Poetry bound together

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Gnapheus, Gulielmus. ELOQUENTIA TRIUMPUS CARMINE... Cologne: Marinus Gymnicus. 1551. ff.(32), with the final blank. BOUND WITH: Balticus, Martinus. POEMATUM... Libri Tres... Additus est & Epigrammatum Libellus Eodem Authore. (Augsburg: P. Ulhardus. No date, but 1556). ff.(48). Title within woodcut border. BOUND WITH: Lorichius, Joannes. AENIGMATUM, Libri III. Recens, Conscripti, Recogniti, & Aucti. Frankfurt: Christianum Egenolphium. (1545). ff.84. Woodcut device on title. BOUND WITH: Walther, Rudolph (or, Gualtherus, Rodolphus). DE SYLLABARUM ET CARMINUM RATIONE, Libri Duo. Zurich: Christoph. Froschouerum. 1554. ff.103. The final blank lacking. Woodcut device on title. The four books bound together in orig. roll tooled pigskin, spine extremities a bit chipped.   $2,500.00 (trade discount allowed)

Three works on Latin poetry and one (Lorichius) on Latin riddles.
I: The second edition. VD V2277 (under "Volder, Willem de"). Not in BL German STC.
II: The first edition. VD 16 B248. Not in BL German STC.
III: The second edition. VD 16 L2555. BL German STC p. 526.
IV: VD 16 W1134. First printed in 1542, followed by numerous reprints. This 1554 edition is recorded with 4 copies in the OCLC, all in Europe. Not in BL German STC.
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