Vitae germanorum philosophorum : qui seculo superiori, et quod excurrit, philosophicis ac humanioribus literis floruerunt. Collecte a Melchiore Adamo

First edition. Printer's device on title page. Not in Brunet or Graesse.
Contemporary full calf binding. Spine with raised bands, decorated. Head worn. Lack to tail. Upper joint partially cracked. Lacking endpapers with marbled paper. Lives of Germanic philosophers from the late 15th century to 1614. The notion of Germanity and philosopher (in the humanist sense) is extended since the list includes Erasmus, Swiss, Dutch, and even Dürer... but also Joan Faustus, Georgius Fabricius, Christophorus Longolius, Copernicus, Mercator, Orlandus de Lasso, Nicodemus Frischlinus, Nicolas Clenard, Henricus Glareanus... that is mathematicians, physicians, astronomers, geographers...