Dec 01, 2005 - Sale 2059

Sale 2059 - Lot 56

Price Realized: $ 374
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
CARION, JOHANNES. Chronicorum libri tres. [8], 684, [184] pages. 16mo, later sheep; marginal dampstaining, scattered early marginalia, title heavily soiled, gathering l8 incorrected folded with leaves out of order. Paris: Officina Puteana, 1561

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World chronicle from the Creation first published in 1537 and later updated with a Lutheran perspective by Philipp Melanchthon and Caspar Peucer. In this edition the invention of printing is ascribed to Fust and Schoeffer at Mainz in 1450 on page 548, and the discovery of the New World to Columbus and Vespucci in 1492 on page 560. Alden 554/12.