Apr 11, 2013 - Sale 2309

Sale 2309 - Lot 39

Price Realized: $ 5,760
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
ROLEWINCK, WERNER. Fasciculus temporum. 14 woodcut text illustrations, comprising 13 views and a portrait; woodcut roundels throughout. [71] (of [72]) leaves; lacks initial blank. Gothic type. Index leaves rubricated. Folio, 272x205 mm, later 19th-century dark brown morocco; scattered minor stains, marginal foxing, and early marginalia, catalogue cuttings mounted on sheet tipped to front free endpaper. Large armorial bookplate of Charles John Shoppee (1823-97), 'Citizen and Armourer of London.' (Venice: Georgius Walch, 1479)

Additional Details

Eighth edition of a popular world history in tabular form originally published circa 1474. This is the first edition printed in Italy, containing the first published view of venice, and the first of only 4 productions from this press. Hain-Copinger 6924; BMC V, 274; Goff R260; ISTC ir00260000.