Jun 17, 2004 - Sale 2010

Sale 2010 - Lot 140

Price Realized: $ 489
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
CHASSENEUX, BARTHÉLEMY de. Catalogus gloriae mundi. 14 full-page woodcut illustrations, all but 3 hand-colored. Folio, old vellum; contents browned and dampstained, outer half of p5 excised, last leaf trimmed and mounted, lacks preliminaries up to 2*1 (title, author's preface, and beginning of table of contents, all replaced in manuscript) and everything after 2i6. Np, later 16th-early 17th century

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"Chasseneux's text deals with the structure of various religious, political, and social spheres, and the woodcuts represent such subjects as the nine choirs of angels, the order of precedence in the church or among the nobility, and the divisions of the arts and sciences or occupations"--Harvard/Mortimer-French 136 (1529 original edition).