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GEILER VON KAYSERSBERG, Johann (1445–1510). Christenlich Bilgerschafft zum ewigen Vatterland. Basel: Adam Petri, 15 June 1512. Folio in sixes (292 x 197 mm). (Few leaves browned, some marginal spotting). Title–page printed in red and black, and with woodcut vignette and architectural border by Urs Graf, 3 single–column woodcuts, one repeated, by Graf, and woodcut initials, gothic type, double–column. Full contemporary tawed pigskin over beveled boards with several roundels of fleuron devices within, brass hinges (lacking clasps, some light rubbing at extremes, old label residue at foot). Provenance: Georg Kloss (1787–1854), booklabel of the German historian of freemasonry that was known for his important collection of old manuscripts and works related to freemasonry that is now housed at The Hague. His library was sold at Sotheby’s London in 1835. FIRST EDITION, ILLUSTRATED WITH WOODCUTS BY URS GRAF. Goedeke I, p. 398, 5; Graesse III, p. 42; Hollstein German XI, 265–267 and 288; Panzer 707.