Apr 12, 2012 - Sale 2275

Sale 2275 - Lot 47

Price Realized: $ 10,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
HOLBEIN, HANS, the Younger. Historiarum veteris testamenti icones. Trechsel woodcut device on title; 94 woodcut illustrations of Old Testament subjects after Holbein, each with Latin descriptive text above and French verse paraphrase below. [52] leaves, including final blank. Small 4to, 168x120 mm, 19th-century red morocco by capé; contents unobtrusively washed with residual light marginal soiling, stain in blank outer margin of title, tiny wormhole in blank gutter of several leaves toward beginning. Lyon: (Melchior & Gaspar Trechsel), 1539

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Second edition of Holbein's celebrated series of Bible illustrations, the first to contain the full set of 94 blocks and the French verse text; issue with colophon on N3v within cartouche, and with N4 blank. Harvard/Mortimer-French 278.