Sales catalogue 4: Lathorp C. Harper, Inc.

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/121
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 4: Lathorp C. Harper, Inc. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    STILLWELL R-31 (three copies including this) HAIN-C. 14067 KLEBS 824.1 CAMPBELL 1490 _ Se¢ also saRTON III-2, p. 1087 76. ROLEWINCK, Werner. Fasciculus temporum. 72 leaves, Gothic type, rubricated throughout. Numerous woodcuts and diagrams. Folio, half calf, gilt. Louvain: Jan Veldener, 29 December ‘1476’, 7.¢. 1475. $650.00 A fine copy of the FIRST ILLUSTRATED BOOK PRINTED IN THE NETHERLANDS. It contains nine woodcuts of fortresses and towns and a larger one of the “Salvator Mundi,” which is the most important of the series. These fine illustrations are attrib- uted by Conway to the “First Louvain Woodcutter” who is most probably to be iden- tified with Jan Veldener, the printer himself, according to the particular wording of the colophon in this and also in another book. About the artist’s work Conway has the following to say: “The trees are natural, capable of growth, with their foliage arranged in masses and their trunks rough with knobs. They are not in the least conventional . . .”, and of the “Salvator Mund’: “.... itis evidently the result of careful work, the lines being evenly, and the main outlines gracefully laid. . .” It is now authoritatively assumed that the cuts are in no way copied from the earlier Cologne edition. A very important book of which only a few copies have turned up within the last decades. STILLWELL R-248 HAIN-COP. 6920 CAMPBELL 1478 CONWAY pp. 17-18, 325 HIND, History of Woodcut, 559-60 DELEN, Histoire de la Gravure ..., pp. 82, 83, and Plate xx1x-1 77. RUPE, Alanus de. De psalterio Beatae Virginis Mariae. 272 leaves (the first an original blank), Gothic type, rubricated throughout. Thick octavo, original binding of wooden boards covered with blind stamped calf (front cover and back partly torn), catch for clasp. [Liibeck: Printer of ‘Fliscus,’ 1479-80]. $695.00 AN IMMACULATE AND COMPLETE COPY OF AN UNRECORDED LUBECK INCUNABULUM. The type is similar to some used by Johann Snell and other Liibeck printers. No final conclusion, however, had been reached by the authorities working on this subject (Collijn, Lange, etc.) and in the meantime a small group of books is ascribed to the anonymous “Printer of Fliscus”’ after an edition of the Variationes Sententiarum by Stephanus Fliscus, Hain 7142. Although not listed by any bibliography of fifteenth- -century books, Collijn, Sveriges bibliografi intill ar 1600, p. 167, mentions our imprint in connection with the Gripsholm edition of the same book, which appeared only in 1498 (Stillwell R-343). The textual differences are quite interesting, and our edition contains for instance a letter from Alanus to a frater Johannes Spane apud cartusiam prone Rostock, 1.e. the Carthusian Monastery of Marienche from where the monks went to the Monastery of Mariefried (Gripsholm) and started a printing press, (leaf 272). There is also in- cluded (leaf 229) a Tractatulus Magistri Adriani de Mera, ord. fratrum predicatorum. The Kommission fiir den Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke knows 5 copies of our edition: 1. Kirchenbibliothek in Barth (Pommern); 2. Univ. Libr., Helmstedt;
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