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Lot 65
Sale 6330 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 8, 2025
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[LEAF BOOK - THE FOLIOPHILES]. Specimens of Woodcuts and Engravings. New York: The Foliophiles, 1926.
Small folio. 15 original leaves with woodcuts and engravings, each laid in to printed folders; loose in original folding box as issued (few small splits to corner of lid).
LIMITED EDITION, number 98 of 120 copies comprising 15 original leaves with woodcuts and copper engravings from: Sebastian Brant's Navis Stultifera ["Ship of Fools"], 1506. -- Hortus Sanitatis, 1517. -- Livy's Quatorze Decadas, 1520. -- Biblia Picturis Illustrata, 1540. -- Belon's De Aquatilibus, 1553. -- Munster's Cosmographia Universalis, 1559. -- Bocchi's Symbolicarum Quaetionum, 1574. -- Missale Romanum, 1576. -- Livy in German, 1596. -- History of the Dacian Wars, 1616. -- Mexia's Nuova Seconda Selva, 1616. -- English Bible, 1639. -- Briefve Histoire de L'Institution, 1680. -- True Effigies of the Most Eminent Painters, 1694. -- La Sicilia di Filippo Paruta, 1697. Chalmers, Disbound and Dispersed Checklist 25.