May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279
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Sale 2279 - Lot 55

Price Realized: $ 900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
BOTHE [or BOTHO], KONRAD. Sächsisch Chronicon. Edited by Matthäus Dresser. Double-page woodcut view of Magdeburg; folding woodcut plate depicting equestrian monument to Emperor Otto I; profusion of woodcut text illustrations, including repeats. [12], 788, [23] pages, including blank last preliminary leaf. Folio, later vellum, rebacked; contents heavily browned with occasional marginal dampstaining. Wittenberg: Johann Krafft for Johann Franck in Magdeburg, 1596
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first dresser edition of the 1589 High German translation of a 1492 world chronicle in Low German emphasizing the history of Saxony, with continuations to 1596 by Johann Pomarius and Dresser. Potthast, page 168; overlooked by Alden (for references to Columbus and Vespucci).