Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 122

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
HEROLT, JOHANNES. Liber discipuli de eruditione Christifidelium. [149] (of [150]) leaves; lacks last leaf with printer's full-page woodcut device depicting the Adoration of the Magi. Gothic type. bound with: PELBARTUS DE THEMESWAR. Sermones Pomerii quadragesimales. [154] leaves, including final blank. Gothic type. Together, 2 volumes in one, both rubricated, with additional decorated initials on A3r and ²A1r in the first work. 4to, 209x146 mm, contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards with brass catches and clasps, rebacked retaining all but the top and bottom compartments of the original backstrip, leather clasp straps restored, vellum endleaves; dampstain in outer margin of opening leaves in the first work, the contents of both otherwise generally clean. (Cologne: Hermann Bumgart, 27 October 1496); (Hagenau: Heinrich Gran for Johannes Rynman, 10 November 1499)

Additional Details

Seventh edition of the first work after the first circa 1475, bound with the first edition of the second work. H 8522, HC 12559; GW 12331, M30514; BMC I, 300, and III, 687; ISTC ih00095200 (25 holding institutions, none in the U.S.), ip00255500 (66 holding institutions, only Grand Valley State University in the U.S.).