Oct 02, 2002 - Sale 1944

Sale 1944 - Lot 34

Price Realized: $ 4,830
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
[Biblia Latina.]<> With the Postilla of Nicolaus de Lyra and additions by Paulus Burgensis and Matthias Doering. Volumes 1 and 2 (of 4): Genesis-Ecclesiasticus. Woodcut illustrations, 4 of them full-page. 421 (of 424), 338 leaves; Volume 1 lacks 2A2.7 and 2A4. Gothic type. Rubricated, and with 10-line initial F in red and blue on 2A3v and 5-line initial I in blue and gold on Da2v. Together, 2 volumes. Folio, 344x239 mm, early 19th-century 1/2 sheep, worn and shaken, spine ends chipped, Volume 1 front joint cracked, cords intact; first volume with first title trimmed and mounted, repairs on 2A5 not affecting text, some contemporary marginalia and underscoring, marginal dampstaining at beginning and end with minor paper corrosion along fore edges, second volume generally quite clean. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1493

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GW 4293; BMC II, 436; Goff B618.<