Oct 16, 2018 - Sale 2488

Sale 2488 - Lot 160

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
PINDER, ULRICH. Speculum passionis domini nostri Jhesu christi. 37 full-page woodcuts (including 5 repeats) by Hans Schäufelein and 3 of different sizes by Hans Baldung Grien or Wolf Traut; 37 small woodcuts by Schäufelein and other artists. [1], 90 [i. e., 92] leaves. Folio, 304x207 mm, 18th-century mottled sheep gilt with morocco lettering piece, joints cracked at top and bottom; dampstaining in gutters and outer corners through much of volume, occasional marginal soiling, conspicuous stains on title showing through full-page Crucifixion woodcut on verso, dark stains on a few other leaves partly entering images, catalogue and newspaper cuttings tipped to front free endpaper. Bookplate of Mary S. Collins. (Nuremberg: Ulrich Pinder, 30 August 1507)

Additional Details

first edition of an illustrated gospel harmony by a Nuremberg physician and humanist, the first book to contain woodcuts with the monogram of Hans Schäufelein. Fairfax Murray/German 334.