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BADIUS ASCENCIUS, JODOCUS. Stultiferae naves sensus animosque trahentes Mortis in exitium. Paris: Thielmann Kerver for the de Marnef brothers, 12 March [18 February], "anno jubileo" [1500]. Chancery 4to, 209 x 139 mm. (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.), janséniste maroon morocco, turn-ins gilt, g.e., by RIVIERE, upper joint starting, lacking c3 and c4, supplied in very skilful photographic(?) facsimile, fols. b6, c6 and possibly c5 defective, affected portions of text or woodcuts supplied in facsimile, a3, b1, b5 and c2 remargined with partial loss to edges of text block (supplied in facsimile), other marginal repairs . Collation:a8 b-c6. 20 leaves. Types: 92 R (P. Wolf 11; Haebler 10). 32 lines and headlines. Lombard initials, woodcut printers' devices on title and c6r, 6 large woodcuts, all but the first numbered in the block. FIRST EDITION of Badius's short satire on the follies of women, inspired by Brant's famous work; not to be confused with his later Navis stultifera (first edition: Paris 1505), a different text on the same ship of fools theme. The first woodcut shows Adam and Eve in the ship of fools, and the others show the "foolish virgins" in five different ships representing the follies of the five senses. The same blocks were used to illustrate a French adaptation of the text by Jean Drouyn, included in an undated edition printed by Le Petit Laurens (c. 1498-1501, GW 3156) along with other "folly" texts based on Brant. HC (+Add) 2240; C 794; GW 3155; BMC VIII, 218 (IA 40992); Goff B-4 (four copies). Provenance : Édouard Rahir, bookplate (sale, Paris, part 2, 6 May 1931, lot 256)