Folio, [28], 394, [1 bl, 1], dampstaining in blank fore-edge margin, worming in blank inner margin of quires g-l, st. on title erased. Contemp. limp vellum, flat spine titled in ink, bottom edge titled, remains of ties. Excellent copy with wide margins.
First ed. of an important collection of medieval historical texts i.a. by Widukind of Corvey (10th c.), the Vita and Epistolae of Emperor Henry IV, the Vita et gesta Coroli Magni, Aeneas Sylvius' De Bohemorum ... origine & gestis, and Jakob Wimpfeling's Epitome imperatorum Germanocorum, referring in Ch. LXV to GUTENBERG'S INVENTION OF PRINTING (pp. 375/76). Woodcut device on title and at the end. Due to a binder's error 24 ff (= the prelims) of another Herwagen printing (an early Americanum ""Novus orbis regionum ac insularum veteribus incognitarum ... libellis"", ed. Simon Grynaeus) of the same period were inserted between the prelims and the beginning of Witichindus' collection, containing i.a. the 'navigatio Christophori Columbi, et Alberici Vesputij ad nouas insulas' (d5v-6r) (VD16 G-3827). Ref.: VD16ZV7827, no copy in Benelux
