Lot 4458: Estienne, Henri. , Francofordiense emporium, sive Francofordienses nundinae. Quam varia mercium genera in hoc emporio prostent, pagina septima indicabit. [Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1574 , [8], 31, [1 (blank)], 120pp., illustration : woodcut printer's

[Elhen von Wolfhagen, Tilemann (1347-1420)] Fasti Limpurgenses. Das ist ein wolbeschrieben Gragment einer Chronick von der Stadt und den Herren zu Limpurg auff der Lohne. [Heidelberg]: Gotthard Vögelin, 1617 , [16], 123, [5]pp., paper flaw in )(6 with slight loss 2 works in one volume, 8vo (174 x 107mm.), binding : contemporary pink paper over carta rustica, spine and corners chipped

1st work: Renouard, Estienne p.141; 2nd work: VD17 23:249041X

first edition of Estienne's encomium of the Frankfurt Book Fair, the most important of the sixteenth century fairs for both books and other commodities. "Throughout this text, there is a sense of pleasure in the mart: strangers are treated kindly, lodgings are good, the merchants are honest, the objects displayed for sale are fascinating and delightful" (J. Considine, Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge 2008, p.92). first edition of Elhen von Wolfhagen's chronicle of Limburg, written in the early fifteenth century, which contains much information about life in the Rhineland of the fourteenth century.