?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
(HORAE B.M.V.) Horae: ad usum Parisiensem. Latin and French text. Kerver device on title; full-page metalcut of Anatomical Man; 16 page-width metalcut illustrations; composite metalcut historiated borders on all but 2 pages. [124] leaves. Bâtarde and gothic types. Rubricated and ruled in red throughout. 8vo, 149x102 mm, 20th-century maroon morocco; signature line shaved in gatherings p-q. (Paris: Thielman Kerver for Gilles Remacle, 3 Feb. 1500/01)
One of 5 known copies, this the only recorded one on paper; the rest are printed on vellum. GW 13107; Bohatta 241; Arnim 166; Goff H355; ISTC ih00355000. From the libraries of C. W. Dyson Perrins (sale at Sotheby's, 4 November 1946, lot 446) and Otto Schäfer (sale at Sotheby's New York, 4 December 1996, lot 251), with their bookplates.
