Lot 167
Rüxner, Georg
Thurnier Buch
Auction: 02 October 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
von Anfang, Ursachen, Ursprung, und Herkommen der Thurnier im Heyligen Römischen Reich teutscher Nation … [Part 2:] Wahrhafftige Beschreibunge aller Kurtzweil und Ritterspil, so der durchleuchtigst Grossmechtigst Fürst und Herr, Herr Maximilian … in ... Wien ... lassen halten. [Part 3:] Des allerdurchleuchtigsten grossmechtigsten Keyser Carols des fünfften … Ankunfft gen Bintz, den 22. August des 1549. Jahres. Frankfurt: Georg Raben for Sigmund Feyrabendt and Simon Hüter, 1566. 3 parts in 1 volume, folio (30.2 x 19cm), [6] 243 [3], [8] 81 ff., folding woodcut plate, woodcut illustrations throughout the text, including half-page vignettes of tournaments, court ceremonial, and similar (many of these signed ‘I. A.’ and consequently attributed to Jost Amman), and numerous depictions of noble arms with contemporary hand-colouring, calligraphic contemporary German binding of blind-tooled pigskin over beveled wooden boards, covers elaborately decorated with concentric roll-tools including a broad central roll comprising biblical texts and accompanying allegorical figures e.g. 'Ecce agnus de qui toll[it]', ‘Aparuit benignitas', front cover lettered ‘H E U M’ and dated 1568, metal clasps and catches, a few repairs to binding, moderate browning to contents, repair to lower fore corner of title-page, part 1 sigs. A4-6 strengthened in gutter, marginal repairs to a few leaves (e.g. B3, I5, 2K1 and 2M2), part 3 final blank 2P6 discarded, occasional spotting, a few other marks [Adams R877; Brunet IV 1471; Fairfax-Murray German 386; VD16 R 3544]
Footnote
First edition illustrated by Jost Amman, and the third overall of this important record of German chivalry and heraldry, originally published in 1530 and again in 1532. This third edition is also expanded from the preceding editions with two additional parts. The second concerns a series of tournaments held at Vienna in the 1560s, and the third describes the entrance of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V into Binz in August 1549.