Apr 09, 2015 - Sale 2379

Sale 2379 - Lot 238

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
ALBINUS [or WEISSE], PETER. Meissnische Land und Berg-Chronica, in welcher ein vollnstendige Description des Landes so zwischen Elbe, Sala und sudödischen Behmischen Gebirgen gelegen. Titles within woodcut historiated borders; 2 full-page engraved and 6 woodcut text portraits; 2 text maps; numerous woodcut coats of arms. [12], 449 [i. e., 447], [13]; [8], 205, [6] pages. 2 volumes in one. Folio, 305x191 mm, contemporary vellum boards with remnants of thong ties, spine darkened, chipped at top; contents browned, wormtrail through index leaves at end slightly affecting text. Dresden: (Gimel Bergen), 1589-90

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first edition of an expanded version of the author's 1580 Commentarius novus de Mysnia oder Newe Meysnische Chronica, on the history and mining industry of Saxony. Hoover 43; Honeyman Sale 52 ("important also for the early history of European porcelain").