Oct 24, 2019 - Sale 2521

Sale 2521 - Lot 80

Price Realized: $ 4,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
ROLEWINCK, WERNER. Fasciculus temporum. [8], 66 leaves. Gothic type. 10-line white-on-black woodcut initial on leaf 1r; numerous small text woodcuts, including repeats, chiefly stylized generic city views; woodcut roundels throughout. Folio, 277x195 mm, early 20th-century 1/2 vellum with calligraphic spine title in ink; contents washed with occasional residual light foxing, marginal dampstaining, and partly cropped marginalia, first leaf rehinged with substantial blank portion at bottom excised and restored, and early owner's inscription on verso. (Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 8 September 1485)

Additional Details

Nineteenth edition of a popular world history in tabular form first published circa 1474. H 6935; GW M38738; BMC V, 290; Sander 6530; ISTC ir00271000.