Oct 17, 2011 - Sale 2256

Sale 2256 - Lot 100

Price Realized: $ 10,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
JACOBUS PHILIPPUS DE BERGAMO. Supplementum chronicarum. Large woodcut of the Creation of Eve; 3 half-page woodcuts of the Expulsion from Paradise, Cain slaying Abel, and the Tower of Babel; over 60 small woodcut city views, including repeats. 272 (of 274) leaves; lacks initial and final blanks. Gothic type. Folio, 292x204 mm, 17th-century blind-ruled sheep with intersecting diagonal quadruple fillets on covers, short crack at bottom of rear joint, covers slightly warped; soiling and stains, most conspicuously on opening leaves, worming at beginning and end causing slight text loss, minor restoration along fore edge of first 2 leaves of table, scattered early marginalia, later 17th-century Italian printer's waste mounted on rear endpapers. (Venice: Bernardinus Rizus, 15 May 1490)

Additional Details

Fourth edition, and second with illustrations, of a popular world chronicle originally published in 1483. BMC V, 402; Essling 343; Goff J211; ISTC ij00211000.