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Specimens of Woodcuts and Engravings.
New York: Foliophiles, 1926.
Limited edition portfolio number 97 of 120, containing fifteen original leaves with woodcuts and engravings, housed in publisher's portfolio, including single leaves with illustrations from the following works: 1) Sebastian Brant's Navis Stultifera, 1506; 2) Hortus Sanitatis, 1517; 3) Livy's Quatorze Decadas, 1520; 4) Biblia Picturis Illustrata, 1540; 5) Belon's De Aquatilibus, 1553; 6) Munster's Cosmographia Universalis, 1559; 7) Bocchi's Symbolicarum Quaetionum, 1574; 8) Missale Romanum, 1576; 9) Livy in German, 1596; 10) History of the Dacian Wars, 1616; 11) Mexia's Nuova Seconda Selva, 1616; 12) English Bible, 1639; 13) Briefve Histoire de L'Institution, 1680; 14) True Effigies of the Most Eminent Painters, 1694; 15) La Sicilia di Filippo Paruta, 1697; sizes of leaves vary, some folded; faults to portfolio box, 12 3/4 x 10 in.
