May 01, 2013 - Sale 2312

Sale 2312 - Lot 44

Price Realized: $ 6,240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
HANS BALDUNG GRIEN
Frag und Antwurt der Zehen Gebott: Wie man die halte sol . . . by Marquard von Lindau.

Bound volume with Latin text and 10 half-page woodcuts, 1520. 268x185 mm; 10 1/2x7 1/4 inches (sheets), wide margins. Published by Johannes Gruningern, Strassburg. Early full vellum binding with Latin text in ink on the covers. Very good impressions of these exceedingly scarce woodcuts illustrating the Ten Commandments.

We have found only 3 other copies of this work in public collections (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; Universitäts Erfurt, Gotha; and the British Library, London) and none at auction in the past 25 years.