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LICHTENBERGER, Johann (d.1503). Dise Practica unnd Prenostication ist gedruckt worden zu Mentz im M.CCCC.XCII. Jar und werdt bisz man zelt M.C.LXVII. Jar. [Augsburg: Heinrich Steiner] 1526. 2°. 45 large woodcut illustrations by Jörg Breu (Some light worming.) VD-16 L-1594. [ Bound third with :] B.PIRSTINGER. Theologia Germanica. Augsburg: A.Weissenhorn, 1531. 2°. Title in red and black within woodcut border. (Lacking B6, a2-3 & d3, heavy worming in first 5 quires, some light marginal dampstaining.) [ And :] [Johannes EBSER, Bishop of Chiemsee]. Onus Ecclesiae. [Augsburg: A.Weissenhorn], 1531. 2°. Title within woodcut border, full-page woodcut on verso. (Light marginal dampstaining.) BLSTC German , 662. 3 works in one volume, 2° (300 x 203mm). Contemporary white deerskin over bevelled wooden boards (soiled, wormed, one clasp lacking). First use of the woodcut series by Jörg Breu illustrating Lichtenberger's prognostications. Breu's series was reprinted in the 1528 and 1530 editions printed at Augsburg and Strassburg, respectively; it in turn is dependent on the series illustrating the first edition of 1488. Lichtenberger was astrologer to the court of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III, and his prognostications enjoyed immediate and lasting success, being printed up to the 19th-century. Although Dodgson (II, p.424, 10a) cites an undated edition of about 1524-5, it does not agree with any edition in VD-16.