Catalogue of an important library of rare and valuable books; incunabula typographica, mostly in original bindings; illustrated books of the XVIth and XVIIIth century; early Americana; Standard works on the fine arts; bibles and liturgical books; fine bindings; Judaica; early books on geography, etc., including Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, 1499; Schatzbehalter, 1491; Terentius, Venezia, 1497; Valturius, 1483; Dürers Hroswitha, Proportion a.o. Holbeins Dance of Death, 1538; The first Holbein Bible; Theuerdank, 1519; Monument du Costume; Janscha-Ziegler, Rheinansichten, etc
A Gilhofer & Ranschburg antiquarian sale catalogue printed in Vienna in 1900, listing incunabula, sixteenth-century illustrated books, bibles, fine bindings and Judaica for collectors and dealers. The plates reproduce woodcuts from the catalogued books: framed title pages with columned architectural borders, blackletter text blocks, a mass at the altar, small domestic and courtly vignettes, and scenes of ships and rocky landscapes, usable as border stock, initials and period figure groups.
