Isidorus Hispalensis, Etymologiae, 19 November 1472. [Augsburg].

Isidorus Hispalensis

Etymologiae, 19 November 1472. [Augsburg].

The compendium of all knowledge, the first map ever printed, first edition in an extraordinary copy in a contemporary binding.

First edition, one of the most influential printed encyclopedias, illustrated with the first printed map (Shirley 1) of the world, and one of the first books with woodcut illustrations. Simply put, Saint Isidore´s Etymologiae helped shape the way people thought and what they understood to be true in the world during the Middle Ages up to the first years of the Renaissance, as such, it is one of the most influential books ever written.

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264 ff. Contemporary blindstamped calf over wooden boards, raised bands to spine forming compartments, remnants of paper labels, boards with intricate tooling, wormed, rubbed and worn occasionally with loss of leather and boards exposed, head and tail of spine worn, clasps missing, holding firm, entirely unrestored ang genuine 15th century binding. Rubricated and supplied initials in red up to leaf 45, first leaves of table with lower right margin soiled and a little frayed, waterstaining and light browning to some leaves, especially at the beginning, thumbing in places, light worming, heavier to first and last leaf, heavier thumbing and marginal fraying to full-page woodcuts (some marginal loss), tears to first leaf; rubricated up to leaf 45.

Provenance: monastic 17th century ownership inscription and later stamp to first and last leaf, stamp repeated on inner cover and leaf 2 and 5 “Bibliothek der Franziskanerklosler Engelberg”.

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