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 (1900)
cated througtiout, witli several fine largecapitals supplied in red, ornamentation in red, othercapitals in red and blue, paragraph-marks and initial-strokes inred. With a remarkable woodcut of the Conversion of S- Paul(on fol. bj). Boards lined with vellum, title written in large Gothic… … 24. Cassianus. Basel 1485. Pellechet 3336. Brit. Mus. Cat. of Incun. Ill, 748- First dated edition and probably the EDITIOPRINCEPS (in Latin). Excellent copy of a finelyprinted and beautifully rubricated volume. Thewoodcut of the Conversion of S. Paul is in thestyle of some of the early cuts in the…
