Jun 07, 2012 - Sale 2280

Sale 2280 - Lot 236

Price Realized: $ 5,280
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(BOTANICAL.) Bock, Hieronymus. Kreutterbuch. Woodcut portrait of the author and a profusion of text illustrations, all hand-colored. [29] (of [30]), 450, [17] (of [23]) leaves; lacks title, next 4 preliminaries, leaf 220, and last 6 index leaves. Folio, 320x208 mm, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards; varying marginal soiling and foxing, some light dampstaining in upper margins, several leaves torn with text loss, scattered other tears not affecting text or images. [Strassburg: Josias Rihel, 1577 or 1580?]