Collection of fragments and leaves of postincunables and early printed editions, Low Countries and other regions, 1534-1689. In good condition.
Estimation :
500 / 700
Adjudication :
Invendu
Description
3 final ff. of Eusebius, Historie der heyligher Kercken, Antwerp, G. vander Haghen, 1534 (NK 883), with a cont. Dutch monastic presentation inscription. - Title leaf of Livius, Conciones, Antwerp, J. Grapheus, 1535 (NK 1377). - Fragment (underlaid) of an unidentified Dutch almanac for 1538, with a woodcut "Aderlassmann". - Final quire ("y’") of a 2nd copy of Fernando de Rojas, Celestina, Antwerp, H. de Laet, 1550 (Pettegree NB 7188. - Title and conjugate leaf of Macropedius, Adamus, Utrecht, H. Borculo, 1552 (TB 3286). - Leaf with mark of Jehan Petit, Paris, 1517 (?). - Woodcut (mark?) with Latin, Greek and Hebrew subscriptions. We join : 23 leaves from German 16th-c. editions. In good condition. Cicero, Officia (...) von den tugentsamen ämptern, Augsburg, H. Steiner, 16 February 1531, folio, 8 ff. - Justinus, Warhafftige Hystorien, ibid., 1531, folio, fragment of f. R. - Brant Sebastian, Das Narrenschiff, 14 ff. with 12 woodcuts, from an unidentified 4to ed. (perhaps Strasburg, J. Cammerlander, 1545). - Elmenhorst, Heinrich E., Der im Christenthum biss in den Todt beständige Märter Polyeuct. Vorgestellet in einem Singe-Spiel, [Hamburg, s.n.], 1689, 4to, disbound, [29 (of 30] ff. (title lacking). Adaptation of P. Corneille’s Polyeucte : libretto by Elmenhorst (1632-1704), music by Johann Philipp Förtsch (1652-1732). Ref. VD-17 32:681057M. (33 pcs)
