Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 50

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CATHOLIC LITURGY.) [Hortulus animae in German.] 66 (of ?) woodcut illustrations, including 7 with the monogram of Urs Graf, the rest unsigned; 4 woodcut historiated initials printed from the same block. [228] (of [250]?) leaves, without title or colophon (a-z A-G in 8 H in 10, lacking a1.8, b1.8, b2.7, p8, q8, r1.8, s1.8, t1, t4.5, v1.8, x1-2, D7, and H1.10). Gothic type, 25 lines, printed in red and black throughout. 8vo, 139x101 mm, modern blind-ruled leather over wooden boards; contents heavily soiled with varying marginal dampstaining, particularly conspicuous toward end, clean tear across x7, few other shorter tears not affecting text or images, hole through signature in lower outer corner of A6. Bookplate of Jaco Calleri Damonte. [Strassburg or Basel? circa 1515-20?]

Additional Details

Possibly unrecorded edition of a popular prayer book similar in content to the Book of Hours. Not found in Bohatta, Oldenbourg, OCLC, KVK, or USTC.