[Rarebooks] FS: Rollenhagen's Lutheran version of the "Battle of the Frogs and Mice" w/woodcuts. Frankfurt: 1730

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[Rollenhagen, Georg]. SINNREICHER FROSCHMAUSELER, VORSTELLEND DER
FROSCHE UND MAUSE WUNDERBAHRE HOFFALTUNG, Der Frohlichen, zur Weissheit
und Regumenten Erzogenen Jugend zur Anmuthigen und Nutzlichen Lehre,
aus den Alten Poeten und Reim-Dichtern... Neuen Auflage mit Einem
Vollenkommenen Register Versehen. Frankfurt and Leipzig: No pub. 1730.
Sm. thick 8vo. (48),672,(30)pp. Index. Illustrated with 14 text
woodcuts (1 full-page). Cont. 1/2 calf over speckled paper covered
boards, worn & chipped. Hinges split but cords still holding soundly.
Round ownership rubber stamp at bottom blank margin of title.   $350.00
(trade discount allowed)
The “Froschmeusler” is Rollenhagen’s (1542-1609) principal work. It is
a free adaptation of the “Batrachomyomachy,” the pseudo-Homeric battle
of the frogs and mice. The aim of this long poem (from Rollenhagen’s
Lutheran standpoint) is moral; a demonstration of the roles of men from
commoner to ruler, as proscribed by God. It was first published in 1595.

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