Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 332

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
GRÜNBECK [or GRÜNPECK], JOSEPH. Ain nutzliche betrachtung der natürlichen, hymlischen, vnd prophetischen, ansehungen aller trübsalen, angst, un[d] not [etc.]. Title within 4-part woodcut border. [20] leaves. 4to, 189x136 mm, 19th-century marbled boards, front joint partly cracked, minor surface wear on covers; title gutter reinforced on verso, contents clean apart from indistinct stamp on title verso and last page. (Augsburg: Johann Schönsperger the Younger, 1522)

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first edition in german of the author's 1508 Speculum naturalis coelestis et propheticae visionis omnium calamitatum, a work prophesying imminent catastrophes, which was later placed on Tridentine Index. The author was a physician, astrologer, and secretary to Emperor Maximilian I. Zinner 1176.