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Lot 82
Sale 6330 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 8, 2025
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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[LEAF BOOKS - INCUNABULA]. A group of 3 leaf books with leaves printed during the 15th century, comprising:
A Leaf from the Letters of St. Jerome First Printed by Sixtus Reissinger, Rome. Los Angeles and London: Zeitlin & Ver Brugge - H.M. Fletcher, 1981. With an original leaf printed ca 1466-1467, with seven rubricated 2-line initials in blue. LIMITED EDITION, number 209 of 300 copies. -- Peter Amelung's Johann Zainer the Elder & Younger Translated from the German by Ruth Schwab-Rosenthal. Los Angeles: Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, Inc., 1985. With an original leaf from Hugo Ripelin's Compendium Theologiae Veritatis, printed ca 1478-1481. LIMITED EDITION, one of 159 copies. -- HALL, Edwin. Sweynheym & Pannartz and the Origins of Printing in Italy. McMinnville, OR: The Bird & Bull Press for Phillip J. Pirages, 1991. With an original leaf from Nicholas of Lyra's Postilla super totam bibliam as printed by Sweynheym & Pannartz in 1471, with two rubricated initials in blue. LIMITED EDITION, number 246 of 275 copies.
Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, 4to and folio, all in original bindings, condition generally very fine.


