Nov 12, 2013 - Sale 2330

Sale 2330 - Lot 25

Price Realized: $ 1,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
BIBAUCUS, GUILIELMUS [i. e., BIBAUT, WILLEM]. Sacrae conciones. 6 full-page woodcut illustrations from 5 blocks, comprising portrait of Jodocus Hess (repeated), Crucifixion, and 3 different depictions of Christ as Man of Sorrows; woodcut historiated border on e3v. [206] leaves. 4to, 181x136 mm, 19th-century 1/2 calf with morocco lettering piece, scuffed; contents toned with occasional light marginal dampstaining, few later marginalia, H3v-4r heavily browned, clean tears in penultimate leaf with repair just touching woodcut on verso, woodcut on last leaf torn without loss, trimmed closely, and mounted, with early stipplework in ink on portions of image. Bookplate of the Hackley Public Library on front pastedown, their stamp and accession number on title verso. [Erfurt: Melchior Sachse the Elder], 1539

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first edition of a collection of sermons by a Carthusian prior-general (d. 1535); edited by Jodocus Hess, with a selection of sermons by him and his poem on the founding of the Carthusian order. Contemporaries of Erasmus I, 145.