Utopia didaci bemardini, Seu Iacobi Bidermani, e Societate Jesu Sales Musici, Quibus iudicra mixtim & seria litteratè ac festive denarrantur. Editio tertia, Indice rerúm aucta

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> 12mo. f. [1], pp. 394, [10]. Vellum over pasteboard, with title, ornament and date inked on spine, speckled edges. 'V. Engelshofen' (fl. 1657) and number '372' stamped on title page; armorial bookplate and ownership note on inside front cover indicate that Franz Anton II, Graf Thun-Hohenstein (1809-70), collector, was a subsequent owner.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Uncommon third edition of Jesuit professor, dramatist and book censor Jakob Bidermann's (1578-1639) ‘Utopia.’ Completed in 1602 but only published for the first time in 1640 after the author's death, the work is a comic answer to the utopian genre. Set in Utopia, the capital city of Cimmeria, the tales in this frame narrative stress human fallibility, irratio