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Lot 144
Sale 6285 - Books and Manuscripts
Mar 27, 2025
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Live / Philadelphia
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$400 -
600
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$1,216
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Lot Description
[Early Printing] Eytzinger, Michael. Der Erst Thayl Relationum Historicarum. Das ist ist Der Historischen Relationen, welche in sich ordenlich nacheinander begreiffen, was, so wol, jm Heyligen Römischen Reich Teutscher Nation, als in Hispanien...
Cologne: Gottfried von Kempen, 1590-91. Six works in one volume. 4to. (viii), 187; (viii), 171, (1); (viii), 129, (1); (viii), 119; 87, (1); (viii), 64 pp. (erratic pagination throughout). Illustrated with four folding engraved plates depicting battlefield scenes. Full contemporary pigskin over boards, elaborately decorated in blind, original clasps and straps intact, title in manuscript on upper spine; edges stained red; old abrasion at center and in top corner of title-page; text leaves moderately toned; scattered spotting to text; scattered wear along edges; contemporary marginalia O1v and O2r.
A handsome copy of Austrian historian Michael Eytzinger's history of the Holy Roman Empire, in a fine contemporary binding.
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