LATIN TRANSLATION OF “REINECKE FUCHS”, illustrated by Amman, Schopper, Speculum vitae aulicae, 1574.

SCHOPPER, HARTMANN (1542-1595). Speculum vitae aulicae. De admirabili fallacia et astutia vulpeculae Reinikes libri quatuor. Frankfurt, N. Bassee for S. Feyerabend, 1574 (Kolophon dat. 1575).
12mo (c. 155x90 mm., binding). (20), 506 (recte 486), (20) pp. With 2 printer devices in woodcut (on the title and last leaf). 52 (8 repeated) woodcuts by Jost Amman (1514-1562), mostly based on illustrations by Virgil Solis.
Contemporary full pigskin binding with blind-tooled decor, boards with portrait of
By Gottes Gnade Augustus Herzog of Saxony and Gotha
blank spine in compartments, partly rubbed and worn, split inner upper joint. Titel med blå stamp Holstein-Holsteinborg med en noble crown. Some slight soiling and foxing, mostly marginal. Small repaired tear to last leaf. Endpaper met nieuwe contemporaanse noten. According to a small label, bought at H. Mellgrens Antikvariat, Gothenburg, Sweden. Bookplate of Falk Simon (1874-1957, famous art- and silver collector in Sweden). Note to the bookplate “Bound by Jacob Krause”.

Provenance: Sven Borgström was born in Malmö in 1927 and worked as a chemist in Stockholm, Malmö and Lund. His fine library, which was built up over many years, consists mainly of older books dated from the 16th century to the late 18th century.
His book-collecting began, as it perhaps should, with an incunabula. Borgström's interests included printers, book bindings, book illustrations, and he was interested in history, travel and maps. As a result of previous coin collecting, the subject of numismatics was also of interest in his library. Sven Borgström died 95 years old.Show more

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