Jul 30, 2020 - Sale 2543

Sale 2543 - Lot 257

Price Realized: $ 219
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
Heineken, Karl Heinrich von (1707-1791) Idée Generale d'une Collection Complette d'Estampes. Octavo, *8, A-Z8, Aa-Ll8, Mm4; illustrated with twenty-one folding plates, and eleven full-page plates (thirty-two in total), large copy with deckle edges throughout, bound in contemporary half leather and pattern-embossed red paper boards, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. Leipzig & Vienna: Chez Jean Paul Kraus, 1771.

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First edition of the first systematic guide to collecting block books and incunabula.