BRANT (Sebastian). Salutifera navis. Lyon:... - Lot 56 - Ader

BRANT (Sebastian). Salutifera navis. Lyon: Jacques Sacon, June 28, 1488 [for 1498]. - In-4, 175 x 130: XXXII ff., ff. XLI-CLII [sig. a-d8 (mq cahier e) f-t8 (mq cahier u)]; Roman car. 30-34 lines. Eggplant half-marquin with corners, gilt filets, spine with decorated ribs, marbled edges (19th century binding). Pellechet, 2825. - Hain, 3752. - Polain, 867. - BMC, VIII, p. 336. - Goff, B-1093, First Latin edition in Lyon of this famous satirical and didactic poem composed by the Strasbourg writer Sébastien Brant (1457-1521 ). Through more than 100 chapters and more than 2000 octosyllabic verses, Brant paints a picture of the human condition. He reviews a wide variety of madmen carried by the human world, crammed into a ship on its way to Narragonia. The book was first published in German in Basel in 1494 by Bergman de Olpe. The latter published a Latin edition in 1497 in a translation by the humanist Jakob Locher (1471-1528), a pupil and friend of the author, which is included in the present edition with the additions of Thomas Baccadelli. This Lyon edition is the first book printed by Jean Sacon (1472?-1530?). It takes up the edition printed in Paris on 8 March 1498 by Joannes Philippi for Enguilbert, Jean and Geoffroy de Marnef, with the same woodcuts. Incomplete copy of the 8 leaves of the cahier e (ff. 33 to 40) and of the 4 of the last cahier u including the table. It contains only 110 of the 119 woodcuts required, the 8 of the book e and the one at the end of the book representing the falling bishop are missing. Rubbed binding. Wet binding, restorations in the margins of the first 5 leaves, without damage to the text, and to the e8 leaf with damage to the last line of the text on the back. Leaves p1 and p2 were formerly torn and restored. The missing parts of the text were copied by hand and the two engravings that adorned these leaves were removed from another copy and glued. Tears on folios q7 and