KRANTZ, Albert (c.1450-1517). Wandalia. Cologne: J. Soter, 1519. [Bound with:] -- Saxonia. Cologne: J. Soter, 1520. 2 works in one vol., small 2° (295 x 200mm). The first work with a 6-leaf table and the second work with an 8-leaf table bound before the titles. Titles within woodcut border. (Some mostly marginal dampstains, more pronounced in the second work, short worm-tracks in the first and last few gatherings, without final blank leaf.) Later vellum, spine titled in manuscript, edges red (upper board and spine soiled, front free endpaper with some loss). Provenance: a 19th-century reader (inscription in German dated 1826 on the front endpaper, very occasional marginalia).

KRANTZ, Albert (c.1450-1517). Wandalia. Cologne: J. Soter, 1519. [Bound with:] -- Saxonia. Cologne: J. Soter, 1520. 2 works in one vol., small 2° (295 x 200mm). The first work with a 6-leaf table and the second work with an 8-leaf table bound before the titles. Titles within woodcut border. (Some mostly marginal dampstains, more pronounced in the second work, short worm-tracks in the first and last few gatherings, without final blank leaf.) Later vellum, spine titled in manuscript, edges red (upper board and spine soiled, front free endpaper with some loss). Provenance: a 19th-century reader (inscription in German dated 1826 on the front endpaper, very occasional marginalia).

FIRST EDITIONS. Krantz's famous histories 'for the period in which they were written are characterized by exceptional impartiality and research' (Encyclopaedia Britannica, eleventh edition). Adams C-2889, C-2884.