BEUGHEM CORNELIS à Incunabula typographiae 1688

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BEUGHEM, CORNELIS à. Incunabula typographiae; sive, Catalogus librorum scriptorumque proximis ab inventione annis, usque ad annum Christi M. D. inclusive, in quavis lingua editorum. [12], 191 pages. 12mo, contemporary calf, rebacked retaining original backstrip, top of spine worn; very light dampstaining in lower margins toward end. (EHLS) Amsterdam: Joannes Wolters, 1688

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first edition. "The first general bibliography of fifteenth-century books. Beughem applies for the first time the word 'incunabulum,' invented in 1639 by Bernard von Mallinckrot for the description of the earliest period of printing, to the books themselves"--Grolier/Breslauer & Folter 85. Besterman, Beginnings, page 36.