STUCKI, Johann Wilhelm.
Carolus Magnus redivivus, hoc est, Caroli Magni Germanorum, Gallorum, Italorum, et aliarum gentium monarchae potentissimi, cum Henrico M. Gallorum & Navarrorum rege florentissimo comparatio: utriusq[ue] regis historiam breviter complectens, quam regum & principum speculum possis appellare.
(Colophon: Zürich, Johann Wolf), 1592. Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm). With a woodcut portrait of Charlemagne and Henry IV on title-page, two woodcut initials and a woodcut printer's device on the last leaf. 19th-century half calf, gold-tooled spine. 79, [1] ll.
€ 1,750
First and only edition of a comparison of the Frankish King Charlemagne (742-814) and the French King Henri IV (1553-1610), written by the Swiss theologian Johann Wilhelm Stucki (1542-1607). The work resembles Plutarch's Parallel lives, comparing the two kings on different aspects of their lives: politics, warfare, court life, religion, and even eating and drinking habits. Stucki states that Charlemagne's wars and conquests were more impressive than Henri IV's. The work opens with a dedicatory letter to the Elector Palatine of the Rhine, Frederick IV (1574-1610), and some laudatory poems.
With some restorations in the head margins of the first three leaves, some water stains in the gutter, slightly browned. Binding rubbed along the extremities. Overall in good condition. Morissey, Charlemagne and France: a thousand years of mythology, p. 333; VD16 S9772.
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