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Stultifera navis. Strasbourg, J. Gruninger, [June 1] 1497. In-4 (225 x 165 mm) of 112 misfigured ff. 116 (sig. A6 B-I6/4 K-X4/6 Y6). Decorated antique reback parchment. FIRST INCUNABLE LATIN EDITION published in Strasbourg (based on the Basle edition given on March 1 of the same year), in large Roman type, 36 to 38 lines per page, and illustrated with nearly 120 magnificent woodcuts, many of which are now recognized as the work of the young Albrecht Dürer (see on this subject Panofsky, La Vie & l'Art d'Albrecht Dürer, pp. 53-54 as well as Winkler, Dürer und die Illustrationen zum Narrenschiff). The illustration, which is very modern and one of the first to be directly adapted to a text, is deeply rooted in the imagination of bibliophiles. The first edition of The Ship of Fools was published in German in 1494 in Basel, during the carnival, by Bergmann de Olpe. This satirical and moralizing work featuring all social classes under the hat of the madman, embarked on a ship sailing towards its own sinking, is no longer presented. Beautiful copy of this mythical incunabulum, one of the most famous illustrated books in history. Marginal restorations to a few leaves for the most part without affecting the text, the title has been reassembled and restored with a few re-letterings, a few leaves cut short, old inscriptions faded in the lower margin and on the back of the last leaf. Some minor soiling. Washed copy, backs of signatures reloaded Hain 3749. Goff, B-1089. N°17 in Frédéric Barbier's classification ("La Nef des fous au XVe siècle : un projet de recherche" in Histoire et Civilisation du Livre, III, Droz, 2007).
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