Thomas Platter [trans. by Mrs. Finn] — Autobiography of Thomas Platter

London, B. Wertheim, 1847. Cloth. The second edition of a scarce translation of the Swiss intellectual's autobiography, an intriguing account of an scholar in the turbulent sixteenth century. The second edition of the autobiography of Swiss humanist, teacher and printmaker Thomas Platter, a figure of the seventeenth century reformation, translated by Mrs. Elizabeth Anne McCaul Finn. A scarce translation published in 1847, first published in 1839. In the publisher's original cloth, with a frontispiece of Platter, and in-text engravings. Originally an assistant of Zwingli, following the latter's death in the Second War of Kappel, Platter became a respected scholar of ancient languages in Basel and lead his own printing house. The autobiography is an excellent insight into the life of a European intellectual during the turbulent sixteenth century. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally, spots to front boards and slight browning to spine. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and to the extremities. A couple of marks to rear board extremities. Slight browning to end papers. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are mostly bright and clean, with minor age toning and a couple of spots to first and final leaves. Good . Ill.: Unknown. Good .