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GEILER VON KAISERSBERG, JOHANN. Navicula sive speculum fatuorum. Strassburg: [Johann Prüss], 1511. Title woodcut and 89 (of 112) half-page woodcuts. 4to, old vellum; text block detaching from casing, lacks numerous leaves, quires q-t disbound. First illustrated edition of Geiler von Kaisersberg's enlargement of and commentary on Sebastian Brant's Ship of Fools, illustrated with the original woodblocks from the first edition of Das Narrenschiff (Basel, 1494), of which the majority have been conclusively attributed to Albrecht Dürer. Adams G316; STC German p. 335.
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GEILER VON KAISERSBERG, JOHANN. Navicula sive speculum fatuorum. Strassburg: [Johann Prüss], 1511. Title woodcut and 89 (of 112) half-page woodcuts. 4to, old vellum; text block detaching from casing, lacks numerous leaves, quires q-t disbound. First illustrated edition of Geiler von Kaisersberg's enlargement of and commentary on Sebastian Brant's Ship of Fools, illustrated with the original woodblocks from the first edition of Das Narrenschiff (Basel, 1494), of which the majority have been conclusively attributed to Albrecht Dürer. Adams G316; STC German p. 335.