Sales catalogue 4: Lathorp C. Harper, Inc.
- Date:
- 20th century
- Reference:
- WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/121
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sales catalogue 4: Lathorp C. Harper, Inc. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sales catalogue 4: Lathorp C. Harper, Inc. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![and 18 smaller woodcuts in contemporary coloring. Octavo, 1gth-century mottled calf, richly gilt (Duquesne, Gand). Antwerp: W. Vorsterman, (¢. 1520-25). $285.00 An apparently unrecorded edition of a beautiful early Dutch woodcut-book. The woodcuts are stiff but of a certain primitive beauty, and the contemporary coloring makes them more lively. Similar to some but not quite identical with any of the following editions quoted by NIJHOFF-KRONENBERG: I, 317; II 2411-16; III 4189-90. 6. BRANDT, Seb. Navis Stultorum: oft, Der Sotten Schip [Ship of Fools, in Dutch]. Title, 234 numbered pp., 8 pp. With 15 full-page woodcuts. Quarto, old calf. Antwerp: Jan van Ghelen, 1584. $95.00 The second edition in Flemish of the “Ship of Fools,” reprinted from the 1548 edition. The woodcuts are copied from the original illustrations attributed to the young Durer. A rare and interesting book. 7. BRANDT, Seb. Aff-ghebeelde Narren Speel-schuyt [Ship of Fools, in Dutch]. 116 leaves (last blank). Title in red and black, with charming engraved vignette, engraved portrait and over 100 large woodcuts through- out the text. Quarto, old vellum. Leyden: H. L. van Haestens, 1610. $95.00 _ A very scarce and most attractive Dutch edition of this famous book. Some of the 105 woodcuts are from the original blocks of the edition of Strassburg, Grueninger, 1494-95, and are here in very good impressions; some of the other cuts look more modern and seem to have been executed specially for this edition. The Serrure copy, bought at the Meerman sale (1824) for 31 florins. 8. BREYDENBACH, Bernhard von. [Peregrinationes in Terram Sanc- tam, in Dutch] Die Heylighe Beuarden tot dat Heilighe Grafft in Iherusa- lem... 190 leaves (the last a blank and genuine) including the exten- sions of the views. Gothic letter. A magnificent full-page woodcut as frontispiece, considered to be the earliest cut in which cross-hatching was used; many fine woodcuts in text representing different nationalities, build- ings, animals, alphabets, etc., and 7 large folding woodcut views. Folio, in an interesting and decorative sixteenth-century Dutch binding of richly blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, with catches and clasps. Mainz: Erhard Reuwich, 1488. $1,250.00 A COMPLETE COPY OF THE ONLY DUTCH EDITION of this famous book, with the woodcuts from the same blocks as those of the Latin edition of 1486. Erhard Reuwich, a native of Utrecht, the illustrator and printer of the book, was also most probably the translator. “Of remarkable XVth century books with woodcuts, that of the pilgrimage of Bernhard von Breydenbach, Dean of Mainz (died 1497), is perhaps the most notable,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33157716_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
