Sales catalogue 533: Maggs Bros

Date:
1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/88
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 533: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Antwerp. Gerard Leeu: a.D. 1484-1493. LAET (JASPAR}—continued. 1478, but apparently one or more were issued even earlier. Gaspard brought out his first calendar in 1488, and it was printed in Flemish. Brunet mentions an edition of his Calendar for 1492, with which was incorporated a tract on astrology which was printed by Gerard Leeu with the characters he used for printing the Legende van S. Franciscus in the same year. The last calendar issued by Gaspard was dated 1523. The Almanack is printed in two Gothic types, a small for the text and a larger for the title and headings of the cities. The copy is in its original state, the leaves being still folded—as the printer left them. Below the colophon are printed three woodcut shields: the centre one is the shield of Antwerp, the right one bears the house-mark of the press, and the left shield contains the monogram of the author Jaspar Laet. This woodcut is not in Holtrop, Monuments typographiques des Pays-Bas au guingieme siecle. | | AUTLTE IMIR. SERS SMALL DEVICE OF GERARD LEEU, FROM JASPAR LAET. PROGNOSTICATIONES, [ABOUT 1490. | [9]
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