Apr 12, 2012 - Sale 2275

Sale 2275 - Lot 57

Price Realized: $ 7,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
ROLEWINCK, WERNER. Fasciculus temporum. [8], 68 leaves, including initial blank. Gothic type. 10-line woodcut initial on leaf 1r, hand-colored; 46 small text woodcuts, including repeats, chiefly stylized generic city views; woodcut roundels throughout. Folio, 271x200 mm, 19th-century 1/2 morocco, joints worn and partly restored, rear joint starting; light marginal dampstaining, occasional marginal foxing and soiling, some early underscoring and partly cropped early and later marginalia. Lewis Einstein bookplate. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 24 November 1480

Additional Details

Frequently reprinted world history in tabular form. BMC V, 283; Goff R261; ISTC ir00261000. Formerly in the collection of the bibliographer Gilbert R. Redgrave (1844-1941), whose writings included a monograph on Ratdolt, with his ownership inscription and notes regarding this edition.