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Boëmus, Johannes, Aubanus (d.I. Johann Böhm aus Aub).

Omnium Gentium Mores, Leges & ritus, ex multis clarissimis rerum scriptoribus, à Ioanne Boëmo Aubano Teutonico nuper collecti, & novissime recogniti. Tribus libris absolutum, Aphricam Asiam & Europam describentibus. Non sine Indice Locupletissimo. Freiburg i. Br., Johann Faber, 1536. 8°. 304 pp., 12 unnum. Leaf index. With large woodcut printer's mark on the title. Leather binding of the 18th century with rich spine gilt. (Somewhat rubbed and bumped). VD16 B-6311. This edition not in Adams. Sabin 6117. Apponyi 1637. not in Gay (Afrique), Göllner (Turcica) and Tobler (Palestine). Early, extensively enlarged and very rare edition of this European bestseller of the 16th century, which was published immediately after the first edition of 1520 in numerous reprints and translations into German, Italian, French, Spanish, Czech and English; by 1620 more than 30 Latin editions alone had been published. The humanist Böhm (around 1485 - 1533/35) from the Swabian town of Aub was a chaplain at the Teutonic Knights' House in Ulm, but spent most of his life in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, where he probably also died. He secretly sympathized with Lutheranism. M. T. Hodgen, Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Philadelphia 1964, p. 131ff: "Boemus made his simple purpose very clear. There were two of them. He wished, first to make accessible to the ordinary reader an already not inconsiderable body of kowledge concerning the variety of human behavior, to arrange it on a broad geographical plan, with the geographical features subordinatedto the ethnological, and to use the printed page for assembling and exhibiting the range of human custom, ritual and ceremony. Second, in the interest of improved political morality, he desired to inform his readers concerning the laws and governments of other nations . His collection of ethnological descriptions begins with Africa . Later, when he turned to the manners and costums of Asiatic and European peoples, the geographical stage becomes broader, and the cultural panorama wider and more familiar. In Asia, it was the ten 'most famous' nations which received his attention: Panchaia, a region of Arabia; Assyria and Babylonia; Medea and Parthia, Persia, Scythia, India, Tartaria and Turkey. In Europe, working from the west by north, he described twenty-nine areas, many of them neighbors of his own Germanic home: Greece, Russia, Lithuania, Livonia, Prussia, Poland, Hungary, Bohemia, Saxony, Westphalia, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, and Britain . With the clear intention of isolating the major social institutions for inspection, and with some degree of orderliness, Boemus placed special emphasis on divergence in marriage and the family, divergences in social organization, in religious, funeral rites, weapons, warfare, justice, diet, and apparel. Out of about twenty-five peoples to whom he gave his most detailed attention, he described the institution of marriage (inlcuding the morality of women and child care) for twenty-three; religion for eighteen; funeral rites for seventeen, weapons and warfare for fourteen; diet for twelve, and so on". Böhm's work was of great influence on Sebastian Münster's cosmography. It was also known and appreciated by Jean Bodin, Edmund Spencer, Montaigne and many others. Title page soiled and with handwritten entry at foot. Trace of moisture in lower margin throughout. Glue stains to endpapers. Ownership inscription J. Morio de Landia on the title, on the flyleaf ownership inscription Per Hierta, Främmestad, dated 1905 - Der Anfang der Ethnologie.

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Boëmus, Johannes, Aubanus (d.i. Johann Böhm aus Aub).

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