Sales catalogue 523: Martinus Nijhoff

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/133
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 523: Martinus Nijhoff. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No. 523. tae? CHAM ANV tL LIVRES ANCIENS ET MODERNES EN VENTE AUX PRIX MARQUES CHEZ MARTINUS NIJHOFF La Have, Lance Voornour 9 ADRESSE TELEGR.: Booxs Hacur ’ i Svcs Prices are in Dutch guilders. One guilder = about 40 Amer. cents. One dollar = about 2.50 guilders RECENT ACQUISITIONS 1. INCUNABULA. Flavius, De antiquitate Judaica. De bello Judaico. Augsburg, Johann Schissler, 28 Juni— 28 August 1470. 288 leaves, incl. the first blank leaf. W. col- oured initials. On leaf 2a blue initial H on gold, with border . of foliage. large fol: oak boards, covered with stamped pig- skin, with bosses. a bosses of the back side and clasps gone). 2450.— Hain-Copinger, nr. 9451. Proctor: mr. $589. Br MM. Cat. 11, 327. Editio princeps, with a date, and at the same time the first book printed by Schissler. The binding and a few leaves at the beginning with insignificant wormholes, but nevertheless a beautiful unpressed copy with very wide margins (the greater part uncut) in a contemporary gothic binding. This copy originally belonged, according to an old inscrip- tion on leaf 2, to. the Monastery St. Peter at Miinich. Gregorius I Papa, Moralia in Job. Nurnberg, (Johann Sensenschmidt), 1471. 405 leaves (without the last blank, but with the blank leaves 384 and 385).-On leaf 2 a coloured initial and. on leaf 7 a large initial in colours with foliage. large fol. oak boards, covered with stamped pigskin. (Clasps and bosses gone). 1650.— Hain-Copinger, nr. 7928. Proctor, nr. 1948. Br. M. Cat. II, 405. According to Census one copy only in America. A very fine unpressed copy with wide margins (some leaves uncut) in a contemporary binding. Carolus IV, Bulla aurea. Nurnberg, Friedrich Creuss- ner, 1474. 23 leaves. sm. fol. boards. 450.— Hain, nr. 4075. Proctor, nr. 2129. Br. M. Cat. II, 446. According to Census no copy in America.