Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 131

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
WOLF, JOHANNES. Lectionum memorabilium et reconditarum centenarii XVI. Titles within elaborate woodcut historiated border; over 400 woodcut text illustrations by Jost Amman, Jacob Lederlein, and others, including numerous depictions of prophecies and portents. [36], 1012; [20], 1074, [2] pages, including final blank * LINSIUS, JOHANNES JACOBUS. In Johannis Wolfii . . . tomos duos, sive centenarios xvi. lectionum memorabilium et reconditarum . . . index absolutiss. [72] leaves. Together, 3 volumes in 2. Folio, 325x200 mm, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards with panel stamps of the arms of Saxony on front covers and Yael and Sisera on rear covers, both volumes additionally stamped BIBLIOTH: SCHO: SEN: MISN. COMPAR. on front and dated 1626 on rear, brass catches, lacking clasps; contents browned, small wormholes through final leaves in first volume and beginning and end of the second not impairing legibility, blank corners restored on 3t1-2 in second volume. Lauingen: Leonhard Reinmichel for the Author, 1600; Jacobus Winter, 1608

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first edition of an illustrated universal chronicle from the birth of Christ to the end of the 16th century, complete with the index.