May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279
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Sale 2279 - Lot 169

Price Realized: $ 2,640
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(MER DES HYSTOIRES.) Le premier [second] volume de la mer des hystoires. Large woodcut historiated initial L depicting St. George and the dragon on titles; profusion of mostly column-width text illustrations; 50 (of 51) full-page woodcut genealogical tables; woodcut historiated and ornamental initials throughout, including zodiac sequence in martyrology at end. [15] (of [16]), 210; 188, [21] (of [22]) leaves, with table of contents to the second volume bound with preliminaries in the first; lacks h3.4 (with double-page world map), q5 (replaced in facsimile), t5-6 (with double-page woodcut map of the Holy Land), and the 2 blanks. Printed in batârde type in double columns. 2 volumes in one. Folio, 320x235 mm, 16th-century calf blind-tooled to panel designed formed by rolls of allegorical figures, recased, bottom of spine chipped, joints cracked at top and bottom; marginal dampstaining on opening leaves and intermittently elsewhere in volume with occasional traces of mold, scattered minor marginal repairs, first title heavily soiled, some early marginalia. (Lyon: Claude Davost for Jean Genevey, 14 November 1506)
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Fourth edition of the 1488 French version of the Rudimentum novitiorum, a Latin world chronicle sometimes mistakenly attributed to Giovanni de Colonna or Burchardus de Monte Sion, first published in 1475. Adams B2876; Harvard/Mortimer-French 468.