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      Josse Bade, Sebastian Murr & Sebastian Brant, eds. & comm. Paris: Josse Bade, Jean Petit & Jacques le Forestier, 1507. Folio.  10,a6,b-z8,A-R8,S4,T8. [10],CCCXXIX,[1]folios. Contemp. calf, elaborately blind-tooled, spine defective and torn in half, front cover loose from board, lacks clasps, front oak board split in two lacking fore section, loose in covers (needs rebinding but not resewing (on double leather cords) worming, old printed waste on rear board (breviary) ; old owner's name on t.p.,marginal worm holes to first leaves (minor text damage) and occ. pinholes in other places ,contemp. annotations in text and on verso of last leaf, some minor stains, large margins, generally clean and crisp. Mark of Badius (Renouard #1) & Jean Petit (#883) on t.p.,Types S180, S55, R106, R92, R76. Decorated initials. T.p. printed in red and black. First Edition. This contains the Parthenice prima sive Mariana preceeded by adresses & letters, a vita of Spagnuoli by Johann Tritheim, and an Apologeticon; Parthenice tertia divarum Margaritae, Agathae, Luciae et Apoloniae agonas continens, dedicated to Isabella d'Este; Vita Lodovici Morbioli, dedicated to Pope Innocent VIII; In laudem Joannis Baptistae pro natali eius (carmen); Votum ad divam virginem with verses of Francesco Tanzi, called Cornigero; Dionysius areopagites, preceeded by a letter of Geoffroy Carles; De suorum temporum calamitatibus dedicated to Olivero Carafa; Contra poetas impudice loquentes (carmen) with verses by Jean Bibaut. Renouard, Ascensius, II,137-9. BM STC (French) 405. Moreau/Renouard I,180. Renouard, Imprimeurs, II,78. Index Aurel. 112.459.