566 - Lazius, Wolfgang. On the Migrations of Certain Peoples, Their Permanent Settlements, Relics, and Languages; origins and changes, as well as dialects, 12 books. With 2 different woodcut printer’s marks, 4 small coat-of-arms woodcuts, several initials, 18 (8 full-page) text woodcuts, and 3 genealogical tables. Basel, Oporinus, 1557. 844 (correctly 838) pp., 17 unnumbered leaves. 36 x 25 cm. Contemporary blind-embossed pigskin binding with roller stamps (slightly stained).

Lazius, Wolfgang. On the Migrations of Certain Peoples, Their Permanent Settlements, Relics, and Languages; origins and changes, as well as dialects, 12 books. With 2 different woodcut printer’s marks, 4 small coat-of-arms woodcuts, several initials, 18 (8 full-page) text woodcuts, and 3 genealogical tables. Basel, Oporinus, 1557. 844 (correctly 838) pp., 17 unnumbered leaves. 36 x 25 cm. Contemporary blind-embossed pigskin binding with roller stamps (slightly stained). First edition. - VD16 L849 - Adams L-347 - Lipperheide 1965 Bf 1. - First edition of his major work on the Migration Period, in which he also drew upon a manuscript of the *Nibelungenlied* (NDB 14, 14). Includes genealogical and ethnographic studies. The Viennese physician (personal physician to Emperor Ferdinand I) and historian Lazius (1514–1565) was also known as a draftsman, etcher, and woodcutter. The woodcuts in this work are also attributed to him (Lipperheide). The woodcuts depict princes, warriors, and commoners from various tribes. — A stain-free copy with wide margins. *