May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603
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Sale 2603 - Lot 193

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
Brunfels, Otto (1488-1534)
Precationes Biblicae Sanctoru[m] Patrum, Illustrium Viroru[m] et Mulierum untruisq[uae] Testamenti.

Strasbourg: apud Johannes Schott, 1528.

First edition, octavo, title page printed in red and black with illustrated woodcut border attributed to Hans Weiditz (1495-1537), showing King Hezekiah in his sickbed being ministered to by Isaiah; each text page (excluding preliminaries) printed within woodcut borders attributed to Weiditz that display a variety of inventive and well-executed themes depicting cherubs hunting and at play; arms & armory; and a variety of natural history subjects, including beetles, rabbits, birds, wild boar, bear, deer, dogs, peacocks, unicorns, and others; one woodcut border openly critical of the Roman Catholic church, showing a hooded fox is selling a Papal Indulgence (displayed as a sign) to geese, with a strongbox behind him; lacking final leaf with printer's mark and the following blank; gutter folds reinforced with strong light brown paper throughout, in a later binding; a good candidate for restoration, 5 5/8 x 3 3/4 in.

Rare at auction; not in Adams.
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