Lot 1
Rolewinck (Werner) Fasciculus temporum, Venice, Erhard Ratdolt, 28 May, 1484.
Hammer Price: £4,800
Description
Rolewinck (Werner) Fasciculus temporum, collation: [* a-g8 h10], 74 ff., 57 lines and headline foliation, Gothic type, woodcut diagrams, illustrations, and white on black ground vine initials, occasional early ink manicules (faded), first two and last ff. foxed and lightly browned, a few small repaired holes, mostly on Tabula ff. with loss of the odd letter, washed, marbled endpapers, early 20th century red morocco, richly decorated with morocco onlays of various colours and gilt, including stylised pomegranate trees with flowers and an oblique striped border to covers, spine in eight compartments, six of which decorated with morocco onlays, the remaining two with red leather labels for title, place of publication, and date, little rubbed at extremities and marked, g.e., housed in a modern burgundy cloth chemise and red morocco-backed slip-case, gilt spine in compartments, spine faded, little rubbed, folio (text block 298 x 194mm.; binding 312 x 216mm.), Venice, Erhard Ratdolt, 28 May, 1484.
⁂ The third Ratdolt edition. The text reproduces that of the 1481 edition, with the addition of a circular diagram with Jerusalem at the centre of the world on fol. '2' and genealogies of the Virgin and St. Anne at end.
Provenance: Roberto Salinas Price, Biblioteca Huicalco, Mexico, 1977 (bookplate to front pastedown).
Literature: BMC V, 288; Goff R-270; H 6934*; GW M38735; Bod-inc R-120; BSB-Ink R-246; ISTC ir00270000.
Description
Rolewinck (Werner) Fasciculus temporum, collation: [* a-g8 h10], 74 ff., 57 lines and headline foliation, Gothic type, woodcut diagrams, illustrations, and white on black ground vine initials, occasional early ink manicules (faded), first two and last ff. foxed and lightly browned, a few small repaired holes, mostly on Tabula ff. with loss of the odd letter, washed, marbled endpapers, early 20th century red morocco, richly decorated with morocco onlays of various colours and gilt, including stylised pomegranate trees with flowers and an oblique striped border to covers, spine in eight compartments, six of which decorated with morocco onlays, the remaining two with red leather labels for title, place of publication, and date, little rubbed at extremities and marked, g.e., housed in a modern burgundy cloth chemise and red morocco-backed slip-case, gilt spine in compartments, spine faded, little rubbed, folio (text block 298 x 194mm.; binding 312 x 216mm.), Venice, Erhard Ratdolt, 28 May, 1484.
⁂ The third Ratdolt edition. The text reproduces that of the 1481 edition, with the addition of a circular diagram with Jerusalem at the centre of the world on fol. '2' and genealogies of the Virgin and St. Anne at end.
Provenance: Roberto Salinas Price, Biblioteca Huicalco, Mexico, 1977 (bookplate to front pastedown).
Literature: BMC V, 288; Goff R-270; H 6934*; GW M38735; Bod-inc R-120; BSB-Ink R-246; ISTC ir00270000.