1563 RODOLPHI AGRICOLA Inventione Dialectica antique 16th century DATED PIGSKIN

Agricola, Rudolf. 

De inventione dialectica Libri omnes integri et recogniti. 

Cologne, Walther Fabritius, 1563


15 leaves, 496 pages, pp. 511–567.

With woodcut printer's mark on the title page and several woodcut initials.

Original  blind-tooled pigskin (worn, lacks ties). Spine with raised bands,  with manuscript spine label.
Date and monogram on the front cover : "CS 1563"

- VD16 A 1106. Adams A 365. Cf. STC 10. –

First edition from the printing house of Walther Fabritius.

The first edition appeared in 1533 in the printing house of Johann von Aich.

– Pages 497–510 are missing.

Title with period manuscript entry and library stamp "Franciscan Monastery Detelbach".


 Minor toning. Title page and first four leaves with a small marginal wormhole, a few leaves with damp edges.

Size: 4 by 6 inches

Text in Latin
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Rodolphus Agricola (1443 – 1485) was a Dutch humanist scholar recognized as the "father of Northern European humanism" for his role in introducing the Italian Renaissance's intellectual disciplines to the North.
Known for his mastery of Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, he was a versatile figure who excelled as an organist, poet, and orator, though he preferred the life of an independent scholar over institutional ties. His most important work, De inventione dialectica (1479), influenced the field of logic by shifting the focus from rigid scholastic reasoning to practical argumentation and rhetoric, profoundly impacting later thinkers like Erasmus, who regarded him as a "truly divine man."
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