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Lot 247

Sale 5132 - Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Feb 17, 2017 5:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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(Early Printing) 1 ...


(Early Printing) 1 Vol. Agricola, Georgius. Bergkwerck, Buch. Frankfurt: Peter Schmidt, 1580. Contemporary blind tooled pig skin over wooden boards, metal clasps; scuffed, head of spine and corners heavily rubbed. With approximately 270 wood cut illustrations. 490pp text, 1 leaf (ciii/ciiii) absent. Pagination corresponds otherwise to OCLC holdings 315789836 and 611578462, &c: [8] CCCCXCI [6] (with 492verso blank as called-for). Title page, index with colophon, &c all present and accounted for.
n.b. some open tears/loss to margins, some leaves with significant loss of text. Medieval German and neo-Latin glosses passim, some amateurish (but charming) contemporary (or old) watercolors filled into some woodcuts. Some minor ink spotting here and there left by an enthusiastic hermit of old. SWAF.

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