Mar 11, 2004 - Sale 2000

Sale 2000 - Lot 123

Price Realized: $ 2,300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
JACOBUS PHILIPPUS DE BERGOMENSIS. Supplementum supplementi de le Chroniche. Woodcut illustrations, including full-page depiction of the Creation of Eve on [11] (of [12]), 350 leaves; lacks the title and A6 (with illustration?). Folio, late 19th-/early 20th-century sprinkled calf antique, top of spine damaged, joints starting; foxing and marginal dampstaining, scattered early marginalia. (Venice: Georgio de Rusconi, 1508)

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Italian version of a popular world chronicle first published in Latin in 1483. This translation was made from the updated and illustrated edition of 1503, the first to include an account of the voyages of Columbus, which appears on u8v-x1r in this edition. Alden 508/3; Harvard/Mortimer-Italian 195 (1503 edition).