Sales catalogue 437: Maggs Bros

Date:
1923
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/21
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 437: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Stamped Bindings (XVth and XVIth Centuries)—continued. 310 VEGETIUS (F.). DE RE MILITARI. 195 full-page woodcuts. Without date, place or printer’s name. (Erfurt, H. Knapp, about 1511). VALUTURIUS (R.). DE RE MILITARI. Roman letter, long lines, woodcut device on title and end. With many fine woodcut tllustrations. ETE A. The two works bound together in one volume. Foho. ORIGINAL STAMPED: BROWN. PIGSKIN WITH INITIALS “AG, D.” AND THE DATE 1545, WilH OUTER PANEL CONTAIN: ING PORTRAIT BUSTS OF ROMAN EAGLE AND VARIOUS COATS OF ARMS OF DUKES OF SAXONY (REBACKED). £18 18s Tur VEGETIUS IS A SEPARATE ISSUE (WITHOUT THE TEXT) OF THE FINE FULL-PAGE CUTS FROM THE RARE GERMAN EDITION PRINTED IN 1511 at ERrurt. THE PRESENCE OF QUIRE SIGNATURES IN ROMAN LETTER BELOW THE BLOCKS SHOW THIS TO BE AN ISSUE THAT IS ENTIRELY DISTINCT FROM THAT WITH LETTER-PRESS. No. 1 1s signeD P.V.M., No. 10 stanep M.S. (Metcuior SCHWARZENBERG), P. 49 staNED H.K. (Hans Knapp), Pp. 90 stgNED H.K. (Hans KNapp), AND BEARS THE DATE 1511 ENGRAVED ON A TOWER. THIS SEPARATE ISSUE WAS PROBABLY DONE FOR THE ARTIST’S PERSONAL USE OR ELSE INTENDED FOR USE AMONG GERMAN SOLDIERS AND OFFICERS WHO WOULD NO DOUBT FIND IT EASIER TO UNDER- STAND THESE FINE WOODCUT ENGRAVINGS THAN THE LETTER-PRESS. Ir THIS ISSUH WAS INTENDED FoR ARMY USE, THIS FACT WOULD NO DOUBT ACCOUNT FOR ITS EXCESSIVE RARITY. ‘ 311 VALERIUS MAXIMS. FACTORUM DICTORUMQUE MEMORABILIUM LIBRI IX. 8vo. Mayence, J. Schoeffer, 1544. IN ITS ORIGINAL BINDING OF STAMPED LEATHER, WITH STAMPS OF BIBLICAL AND EMBLEMATICAL SUBJECTS ‘RE- PEATED ON EACH COVER, WITH THE DATE 1844 ON THE BACK AND FRONT, AND THE INTTIALS 0. 2 ees Sbibe end, £7 10s A. FINE EXAMPLE OF GERMAN STAMPED WORK. ‘TH OWNER’S NAME’ WAS APPARENTLY CHRISTIAN THENN.
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