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BADIUS Ascensius, Jodocus. Navis Stultifera. Paris: J.Badius Ascensius for himself and the de Marnef brothers, 26 September 1505. 4° in 8s and 4s (193 x 128mm.). Title in red and black with woodcut illustration of the ship of fools and the de Marnef's device, 114 woodcut illustrations (two full-page and including 4 repetitions). (Tears to f4, g8 and i4, l5 and n7 holed, some worming or soiling). 18th-century vellum, the flat-backed spine gilt with orange morocco lettering piece, flower-spray tool repeated five times, and the letters 'TRISALE' tooled at foot of spine. Provenance : Early manuscript marginalia. FIRST EDITION of Badius' text 'not an adaption of Brant's famous satire but a new work on the same theme': Mortimer. The text was probably written to fit the illustrations, which were cut for the first edition of Pierre Riviere's French translation of Brant's work published in Paris in 1497. Renouard II p.81; Mortimer French 44; Brunet I,1205.