Aelianus & Spalatin - De varia historia & Magnifice consolatoria exempla - 1548/1544

RARE miscellany Claudius Aelianus Aeliani de varia historia libri XIIII, nunc primùm & latinitate donati, & in lucem editi, Iusto Vulteio Wetterano interprete. Item, de politiis, sive rerumpublicarum descriptiones, ex Heraclide, eodem interprete Basel, Joannes Oporinus, 1548 280+[24] pp First Latin translation by Justus Vulteus (1529-1575) of Claudius Aelianus' ‘diverse history’ & [Georg Spalatin Magnifice consolatoria exempla, & sententiae, ex Vitis & Passionibus Sanctorum & aliorum summorum Virorum, brevissime collectae, Opera. Cum præfatione D. Mart. Luth. Wittenberg, Ex Officina Typographica Nicolai Schirlent, 1544] (148) pp Missing: title page & quire A (Praefatio by Luther & Epistola dedicatoria) & L3-5 (Valentinian etc) Georg Spalatin is the pseudonym of Georg Burkhardt (1484-1545) , German humanist, theologian and important figure of the Reformation. Martin Luther wrote the foreword to this survey of saints and prominent people. Bound together in an 18th-century leather binding (15 × 10 cm, hinges split) , ex-libris note in ink (gymnasio tornacenti, Tournai 1802) , marginal moisture stains, foxing