Lot 43
Obsopoeus, Vicentius
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 10 January 2007 at 11:00 GMT
£407
Description
De arte bibendi libri tres... Denuo ab autore recognitum. Nuremberg: Johann Petri, 1537, 4to (188 x 133mm.), 54 ll., woodcut initials, nineteenth-century polished calf, upper cover detached
Footnote
Note: Second edition of this poem about the art of drinking without getting drunk, first printed by Petri the previous year. Obsopoeus, or Heydnecker (d. 1539), was the son of a Bavarian cook. He made Latin translations of several of Luther's German works.
Cf. Oberlé 1017 & Simon, BB ii, 476 (1st edition)