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Lot 298

Sale 1097 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Lots 1-410
Nov 8, 2022 9:00AM CT
Lots 411-717
Nov 9, 2022 9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$200 - 400
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$438
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[LEAVES -- INCUNABULA] -- [SCHEDEL, Hartmann]. Two Incunabula leaves with hand-coloring from the Liber Chonicarum, or Nuremberg Chronicle. [Nuremberg, 1493].


2 leaves, folio (visible area 388/415 x 236/242 mm), on laid paper, woodcuts with hand-coloring depicting [Noah's Ark] (Ff. XI[v]), [The Rainbow] (upper portion only, lower portion torn away) (Ff. XI[v]), [Anglie Provincia] (left page of double-page image only) (Ff. XXXXVI[v]) and [Portraits of the Lineage of David, including Solomon and 7 others] (Ff. XXXXVI[r]), XI[r] printed in two columns, numbered on rectos XI and XXXXVI, each leaf with several large closed tears most with repairs occasionally just affecting images or text, leaf XI with tear with loss to lower left XI[v] affecting text and most of the rainbow woodcut with repairs recto, some minor spotting or staining, each matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). 

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