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Lot 2
Sale 873 - Fine Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 12, 2021
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Estimate
$2,000 -
3,000
Price Realized
$12,500
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Lot Description
[BIBLE, in Latin]. Biblia. [Basel: Johann Amerbach or Freiburg: Kilian Fischer], 1491.
Folio (305 x 206 mm). 406 (of 408) leaves, lacking first leaf (half-title) and final leaf (of the Interpretationes hebraicorum nominum). Double column and 4-column, 56 lines plus headline; first leaf with large initial “F”, 3- to 4-line initials supplied in red or blue. (First few leaves bound in on a stub, final leaf repaired in the gutter margin just touching letters, tiny wormholes touching letters throughout, some minor mostly marginal soiling or dampstaining to a few leaves.) Modern blind-panelled calf.
BMC assigns to Fischer; Proctor and GW to Amerbach. BSB-Ink B-464; BMC III, 694; Goff B-590; GW 4267; HC 3108*; Pell 2330.
Property from the Collection of LSC Communications, Inc.


