May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 117A

Price Realized: $ 3,120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(MISCELLANEOUS.) Group of 10 leaves with woodcut illustrations, hand-colored except for leaf with Golden Calf scene. Folio, some soiling and minor stains. Vp, 1470s-early 1500s
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Jacobus de Voragine. Leben der Heiligen. Leaf with column-width woodcut of Judas. Hinged to mat; paper browned. Augsburg: Günther Zainer, 1471-72.

[Bible in German.] Leaf 80, with woodcut of Moses blessing Joshua on recto. Hinged to mat. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1483.

Ludolphus de Saxonia. Tboeck vanden leven Jhesu Christi. Leaf with woodcut of Christ healing demoniac. Hinged to mat. Antwerp: Claes Leeu, 1488.

Schedel, Hartmann. Liber chronicarum. Leaves 14, 15, 16, 56, and 65, with genealogical woodcuts; and large woodcut excised from leaf 31 depicting Israelites worshipping the Golden Calf, mounted on heavy paper. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 1493.

Tengler, Ulrich. Layen Spiegel. Leaf 59 from an unidentified edition, with large woodcut of Jews and unbelievers on verso. Hinged to mat. [Augsburg?], early 1500s.