Melchior, Adam. Vitae Germanorum Superiori,

et quod excurrit, seculo philosophicis et humanioribus literis clarorum; sive literati in Germania seculis. Volumen I. Frankfurt, by N. Hoffmann for J. Rosa, 1615, (13),(3 blank),526,(8) p., simple marbled paper wr.

Waterst. throughout, a few quires wormholed in lower blank margin, title-p. re-attached. Very rare first edition of the first part of a series on the lives of important Germans, complete in itself. Melchior (1575-1622) published his Vitae Germanorum Philosophorum in the same year, followed by Vitae Germanorum Theologorum, Vitae Germanorum Jurisconsultorum and Vitae Germanorum Medicorum in 1620.