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)
.Wooden boards covered with blind stamped pigskin, 2 clasps. Frs. 7500.— Hain-Copinger * 5501. Proctor 5574. Essling 1196. First edition of the most beautiful of all woodcut-books. A considerable litterature has grown round the question of theauthorship of the famous woodcuts in this remarkable… … No. 27. Columna. Venetia 1499. GILHOFER & RANSCHBURG, WIEN I, BOGNERGASSE Nr. 2. 16 INCUNABULA. The ..Strife of Love in a Dream, as its Elizabethan translatorprettily rendered the title of the Hypnerotomachia is an archaeologicallove-story, full of dreams and visions of a mythological and…
