153 - Albertinus, A. The World's Playground: and Fairground. Including the Bitter-Sweet Truth. In it, with the introduction of many beautiful and excellent discourses... Munich, Kruger, 1613. 12 leaves, 1048 pages (pagination jumps several times). Blind-tooled parchment binding over wooden boards with mounted supralibros of the Kreuzlingen Monastery and remnants of brass clasps.

Albertinus, A. The World's Playground: and Fairground. Including the Bitter-Sweet Truth. In it, with the introduction of many beautiful and excellent discourses... Munich, Kruger, 1613. 12 leaves, 1048 pages (pagination jumps several times). Blind-tooled parchment binding over wooden boards with mounted supralibros of the Kreuzlingen Monastery and remnants of brass clasps. Goedeke II, 582, 29 b; VD17 23:292030U.- Second edition with the same collation as the first edition of 1612.- Partial translation of Berchorius' 'Reductorium morale' by Aegidius Albertinus. Natural history, popular science compilation with numerous articles on the animal and plant world, minerals, planets, angels, devils, etc. - coat of arms bookplate on the mirror, bookplate with chess pieces by Lothar Schmid on the flyleaf (in the preface, the game of chess is described as a metaphor, 'the wondrous and excellent game which is called check: Following this, he went to the queen, played this game with her, gave her king check and mate, and went away silently with it'.