Oct 20, 2009 - Sale 2190
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Sale 2190 - Lot 371

Price Realized: $ 4,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
NATALIBUS, PETRUS DE. Catalogus sanctorum [et] gestorum eorum. Title in red and black within woodcut border by Urs Graf; full-page woodcut by Graf on a4v of the resurrected Christ appearing to the Apostles, with animals representing the Evangelists in the corners. [4], 253 leaves. Folio, contemporary Augsburg binding of blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards with center panel enclosed by deer/dog/unicorn roll on front cover and floral roll on rear cover, bottom of spine restored, lacks catches and clasps; occasional light marginal dampstaining and minor worming in blank margins, title lightly soiled, with small piece of paper pasted over stamp. Early ownership inscription of the Augustinian monastery at Baumburg in Upper Bavaria. (Strassburg: Martin Flach, 1513)
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Fourth(?) edition of a late 14th-century hagiographical compendium first printed in 1493 in Vicenza, containing brief notices of a multitude of saints from the Creation to the author's time, arranged according to the ecclesiastical calendar. Adams N45; Kyriss, Verzierte gotische Einbände 79 (Hirsch-Rolle IV).