Description:
Incunabula Leaves. Seven separate paper, folio-format early printed book leaves removed from the following works: 1) Saint Augustine's Epistolae, Strasbourg, before 1471; 2) Decretalium, Venice: Jenson, 1477; 3) La Mer des Histoires, Paris: Pierre le Rouge for Vincent Commin, 1488-89; 4) Rudimentum Novitiorum, Lubeck: Lucas Brandis, 1475; 5) Glossa Ordinaria, Strasbourg: Rusch for Koberger, c. 1480; 6) Nuremberg Chronicle in Latin, 1493; and 7) Nicolaus de Lyra's Postilla super totam Bibliam, Strasbourg: Mentelin, not after 1472; four leaves with capital strokes provided in red, and the occasional simple rubricated manuscript initial; woodcuts of a comet and some kings and pontiffs on the Nuremberg Chronicle leaf; leaves are various sizes, all folio format, generally good.
[and] three leaves from the Doves Press Bible, London, 1903-1905, printed on paper, in black with red initials. (10)
Estimate $300-500
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