Geyler

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      [colophon: Argen{torati}: Excriptum in aedibus Schurerianis, 1510]. 18th-century German boards covered with black-mottled paper; paper spine label. Portion of front free endpaper cut away; small blank area of top of title-page cut away and repaired long ago. Light waterstains and occasional instances of worming (in margins). The final section, i.e., the Vita, is loose in the binding. . 4to (21 cm; 8.25"). Unfolioed, but [284] ff. . First edition and rare. Geyler (1445-1510), a Swiss-born preacher, considered one of the greatest of the popular preachers of the 15th century, here offers sermons (in the form of 37 discourses on 110 "Turbae" or "Turmae") based on his friend Sebastian Brant's Narrenschiff, and, in doing so, manages to make reference to = America (leaf Z2r). #11; The two woodcuts (title-page and opposite A1r) are copies of illustrations appearing in Brant's famous work - the first, a version of the Ship and the second, of "The Corrupt Way to Live of Those Who Are Ruined." The volume is, as one would expect, printed in gothic type (except for the biography). There are spaces with guide letters for capitals; the side margins have letters and numbers to aid in finding passages.#11; Of this edition, in the U.S. we locate only the copies at the New York Public and Cornell University libraries.