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Lot 239
Sale 1184 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana
May 11, 2023
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$1,000 -
2,000
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$630
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Lot Description
HIERONYMUS de VILLA VITIS. Orationale, seu Panis quotidianus de tempore. [Hagenau: Heinrich Gran, about 1509].
4to. Collation: i-viii, 1-6, i-vi, a-z⁸, A-N⁸ O⁴ P⁶ Q-R⁸ (lacking M5-7). Calendar printed in red and black bound at front. (A few tiny wormholes on first few leaves occasionally touching letters, marginal rust-holes on last few leaves.) Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards (rebacked and repaired, lacking clasps and catches. Provenance: some early annotations on first leaf; Edwarde Preston (signature on first leaf).
Rare edition of this popular collection of sermons, likely printed by Heinrich Gran, who had worked as a contract printer for the publisher and bookseller Johann Rynman von Öhringen since 1497. Goff H-266; Hunt 1820; BMC(Ger) p.405; BSB-Ink H-237; GW XI Sp.86a; ISTC ih00266000.
