.jpg?w=1)
Details
ETTERLIN, Petermann (1430/40-1509). Kronica von der loblichen Eydtgnoschaft. Basel: Michael Furter, 24 December 1507.
2° (309 x 203mm). Collation: a8 A6(-2,blank) B-X6. 133 leaves; A1 signed Aii on verso. Xylographic title with woodcut border pieces and 29 WOODCUT SCENES FROM 13 BLOCKS, AT LEAST 4 OF WHICH ARE BY THE MASTER D.S.: 2 full-page woodcuts, 19 half-page and 8 smaller cuts, printer's device flanked by two border pieces below colophon, woodcut initials from several sets, including Maiblumen, some initial spaces with guide-letter. (Occasional minor marginal repairs, some browning.) Contemporary German half pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, tooled in blind with rolls, two fore-edge clasps, remains of old paper label on upper cover (slightly darkened and rubbed, repairs in red leather at head of spine and lower edges, 19th-century endpapers). Provenance: Vienne, convent of Discalced Carmelites (17th-century inscription)
FIRST EDITION of the first printed history of the Confederation of Switzerland. Etterlin compiled his history from earlier chronicles such as those by J. von Königshofen and Hartmann Schedel. For more recent events, however, Etterlin provided an eyewitness account, as he himself had been an active soldier in the Burgundian war, and it is recounted with great effect. It was a momentous event in the history of the Confederation, creating a nationalism among the disparate states and raising the profile of its military, while the alliances formed in the Savoy resulted in further admissions into the League in the early 19th century. Peace was made in 1499, after which date the Confederation functioned as a state allied, rather than subservient, to the Empire, and in 1501 Basel and Schaffhausen joined the league. Etterlin's Kronica thus both reflected and fostered the new-found Swiss nationalism and interest in their common history.
Six woodcuts have been given to the Master D.S., including the Imperial arms surrounded by the arms of the Swiss confederation, the view of Lucerne, and the scene of William Tell shooting the apple from the head of his son (Bock, Holzschnitte des Meisters DS, 1924, B 14-17); two battle scenes may be the work of a pupil (Bock, 47-48). THE WOODCUTS OF LUCERNE AND OF WILLIAM TELL ARE THE EARLIEST DEPICTIONS OF THEIR SUBJECTS. The first four woodcuts illustrate the life of St. Meinrad, on the site of whose hermitage the monastery of Einsiedeln was founded, and were cut for Furter's edition of the Passio S. Meynradi (1496). Not in Adams, Murray German, etc. Muther p.70; VD-16 E-4110.
2° (309 x 203mm). Collation: a
FIRST EDITION of the first printed history of the Confederation of Switzerland. Etterlin compiled his history from earlier chronicles such as those by J. von Königshofen and Hartmann Schedel. For more recent events, however, Etterlin provided an eyewitness account, as he himself had been an active soldier in the Burgundian war, and it is recounted with great effect. It was a momentous event in the history of the Confederation, creating a nationalism among the disparate states and raising the profile of its military, while the alliances formed in the Savoy resulted in further admissions into the League in the early 19th century. Peace was made in 1499, after which date the Confederation functioned as a state allied, rather than subservient, to the Empire, and in 1501 Basel and Schaffhausen joined the league. Etterlin's Kronica thus both reflected and fostered the new-found Swiss nationalism and interest in their common history.
Six woodcuts have been given to the Master D.S., including the Imperial arms surrounded by the arms of the Swiss confederation, the view of Lucerne, and the scene of William Tell shooting the apple from the head of his son (Bock, Holzschnitte des Meisters DS, 1924, B 14-17); two battle scenes may be the work of a pupil (Bock, 47-48). THE WOODCUTS OF LUCERNE AND OF WILLIAM TELL ARE THE EARLIEST DEPICTIONS OF THEIR SUBJECTS. The first four woodcuts illustrate the life of St. Meinrad, on the site of whose hermitage the monastery of Einsiedeln was founded, and were cut for Furter's edition of the Passio S. Meynradi (1496). Not in Adams, Murray German, etc. Muther p.70; VD-16 E-4110.
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.