Strasbourg: Joannes Knobloch, 1516.
Popular German-language epitome of Bolognese astrologer and chiromancer Bartolommeo della Rocca Cocles's Chiromantie ac physionomie anastasis. Cocles discusses, in 23 short chapters, the fundamentals of physiognomy: the nature of the four principal "complexions" (humors), and how to determine the character of a person by not just.....

Wittenberg: Josef Klug, 1529.
Caspar Huberinus, a Bavarian transplant to Augsburg, was a late but ardent supporter of Luther and the Protestant cause: Huberinus's first book, a kind of commiseration and admission of confraternity with "secret Protestants"—incipient reformers still in the closet, as it were—did not appear until 1525. The.....

Antwerp: Coppens van Diest, 1564.
First Edition. Valentin Mennher, a member of the St. Ambrose guild of schoolmasters, was born in Bavarian Swabia c1521, and became a well-known editor and writer of mathematical textbooks.1 After travels in Italy, Germany, and Austria, he settled in Antwerp in 1549, where he produced.....

Bologna: Alessandro Benacci, c1559.
Only Edition. Bolognese poet Pierluigi Tarinti's first-person verse narrative, in traditional Dantean terza rima, recounts the author's horseback journey from Bologna to Scandiano (via Modena) one fine day "in the month which comes after August." Tarinti, who addresses his  brother, plans a leisurely trip—partly because he.....