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BRANT, SEBASTIAN (1457-1521). Stultifera Navis (translated by Jacob Locher, with additions by Thomas Beccadelli). Lyons: Jacques Sacon, 28 June 1488 [i.e., 1498]. Chancery 4to, 194 x 132 mm. (7 5/8 x 5 3/16 in.), eighteenth-century red morocco, covers gilt-panelled, smooth spine gilt, black morocco lettering-pieces, board edges and turn-ins gilt, g.e., extremities slightly rubbed, inner hinges cracked, lacking u4 blank, large neat reinforcement to lower portion of title-leaf, q8 remargined, a few other mostly marginal repairs catching 2 or 3 letters, occasional mostly minor worming, some marginal soiling . Collation: a-t8 u4. 155 leaves (of 156, lacks final blank). Type: 1:81 R. 33 lines and foliation. A few capital spaces with guide-letters. 119 woodcuts, 3 full-page, including 3 repeats. First Lyonese edition, the first known work from Sacon's press. The edition is copied nearly page for page from the Marnef edition printed in Paris on 8 March 1498 (GW 5064), and uses the same woodblocks, most of which had first appeared in the first edition of Pierre Riviere's French verse translation (Paris: for de Marnef and Philippi, 1497, GW 5058). (Cf. BMC VIII, pp. 150-51 for a discussion of the priority of these editions). HC 3752; GW 5063; Pellechet 2825; Polain 867; Proctor 8671; BMC VIII, 336 (IA 42173); Goff B-1093. Provenance : 1. "De griffon alle(?)", elaborately flourished early sixteenth-century signature on t8v 2. Contemporary marginalia ( many notes cropped ) in two different hands 3. Neat ink inscription on front flyleaf: "Jan. 1820 ?Couston sale at Paris" 4. Richard Heber, ink stamp on front flyleaf 5. Henry Huth, armorial morocco gilt bookplate (sales, Sotheby's London 1911-20) 6. Édouard Rahir, bookplate (sale, Paris, part 2, 6 May 1931, lot 269, purchased by Rouquette). 7. (Purchased by Henri Burton from Lardanchet, at an unknown date).