May 11, 2010 - Sale 2214
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Sale 2214 - Lot 87

Price Realized: $ 38,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(INCUNABULA LEAVES.) Collection of over 275 leaves, of which over 150 are catalogued and organized in Proctor order in 8 albums with each leaf loose under mylar with description, the remainder uncatalogued or partly catalogued. list of catalogued items available on request. Vp, 1460s-90s
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The collection contains some 35 examples of recovered binder's waste and 20 printed on vellum. Included are leaves from the following works:

Johannes Balbus, Catholicon, Mainz: Printer of the Catholicon, 1460 [i. e., 1469?], bifolium with Galliziani watermark;

Biblia Germanica, Strassburg: Johann Mentelin, before 27 June 1466, the first German Bible;

Johannes Balbus, Catholicon, Augsburg: Günther Zainer, 30 April 1469, vellum leaf;

Flavius Josephus, De antiquitate Judaica, Augsburg: Johann Schüssler, 23 August 1470;

Guillelmus Duranti, Rationale divinorum officiorum, Strassburg: The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch), circa 1470, bifolium;

Henricus Ariminensis, De quattuor virtutibus cardinalibus, Speier: Printer of of the Gesta Christi, after 11 November 1472;

Speculum humanae salvationis, Augsburg: Günther Zainer, 1473;

Valascus de Tarenta, De epidemia et peste, Southern France: Printer of Valascus de Tarenta, circa 1474;

Flavius Josephus Josephus, De antiquitate Judaica, Southern Netherlands: Printer of Flavius Josephus, not after 1475;

Rudimentum novitiorum, Lübeck: Lucas Brandis, 5 August 1475;

Publius Ovidius Naso, Les Metamorphoses, Bruges: Colard Mansion, May 1484;

John Lathbury, Liber moralium super threnis Jeremiae, Oxford: Theoderic Rood, 31 July 1482;

Aelius Donatus, Ars Minor, Nuremberg: Friedrich Creussner, circa 1485-90;

Missale Strigoniense, Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, before 1486(?), believed by Feinberg to be the first Esztergom Missal, of which no copy is known;

Raimundus Peraudi, Indulgence for promoting the war against the Turks, Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 1488, vellum fragment, the only recorded copy;

Raimundus Peraudi, Avisamenta confessorum seu Statuta, Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, circa 1488-89, one of two recorded copies;

Bonaventura, The myrroure of the blessyd lyf of Jhesu Cryste, London: Richard Pynson, 1494.