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Auction archive: Lot number 5

ALEXANDER MAGNUS -- Historia Alexandri Magni: Hienach volget die histori von dem grossen Alexander wie die Eusebius beschriben hat . Translated from Latin and adapted by Johann Hartlieb (ca.1410-1468). Augsburg: Anton Sorg, 5 June 1480.

Auction 02.11.1994
2 Nov 1994
Estimate
£8,000 - £12,000
ca. US$12,715 - US$19,072
Price realised:
£7,475
ca. US$11,880
Auction archive: Lot number 5

ALEXANDER MAGNUS -- Historia Alexandri Magni: Hienach volget die histori von dem grossen Alexander wie die Eusebius beschriben hat . Translated from Latin and adapted by Johann Hartlieb (ca.1410-1468). Augsburg: Anton Sorg, 5 June 1480.

Auction 02.11.1994
2 Nov 1994
Estimate
£8,000 - £12,000
ca. US$12,715 - US$19,072
Price realised:
£7,475
ca. US$11,880
Beschreibung:

ALEXANDER MAGNUS -- Historia Alexandri Magni: Hienach volget die histori von dem grossen Alexander wie die Eusebius beschriben hat . Translated from Latin and adapted by Johann Hartlieb (ca.1410-1468). Augsburg: Anton Sorg, 5 June 1480. Chancery 2° (253x185mm). Collation: [1-14 10 15-16 8 ] (1/1r blank, 1/1v full-page woodcut, 1/2r Hartlieb's prologue, 1/3v prologue of pseudo-Eusebius, 1/4v text, 16/7v colophon, 16/8 blank). 147 (of 156, lacking 1/3,10, 3/1, 5/1.10, 13/5.6, 16/1, and blank 16/8; folios 1/3 and 16/1 are supplied from a later edition). 33 lines. Type: 2:118G. Maiblumen capitals (1 b ), outline capitals (2), and 24 (of 28) woodcuts from 21 blocks, handcoloured in red, green, yellow, orange and brown. (Bifolia 1/5.6 misbound as outermost sheet of quire 3 and 6/5.6 misbound as central sheet of quire 1, first leaf reversed in binding, a few light stains and very light dampstains, some light spotting in fore-edges of final leaves, small marginal tear in fos. 1 and 141 repaired, some worm-tracking in gutter.) Early paper boards, vellum manuscript spine (spine repaired). Provenance : small pointing hands stamped in as text markers; a few marginal notes in German in an early hand. A rare edition, the fourth in German, with only one copy recorded in America (at Cleveland Public Library), and GW recording a total of only six copies. For his editions of the Alexander Magnus , of which this is the second, Sorg took over the woodcuts previously used by Bämler and supplemented the series with new ones, some merely replacement copies but others new depictions of scenes. In the Klotz copy they are superbly coloured by hand in bright, fresh colours. The full-page woodcut opening the book has been interpreted variously as portraying Eusebius, Alexander, or Hartlieb. H *788; GW 886; Goff A-405; Schreiber 3135; Schramm IV, pp.15 & 50; BSB H-285

Auction archive: Lot number 5
Auction:
Datum:
2 Nov 1994
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

ALEXANDER MAGNUS -- Historia Alexandri Magni: Hienach volget die histori von dem grossen Alexander wie die Eusebius beschriben hat . Translated from Latin and adapted by Johann Hartlieb (ca.1410-1468). Augsburg: Anton Sorg, 5 June 1480. Chancery 2° (253x185mm). Collation: [1-14 10 15-16 8 ] (1/1r blank, 1/1v full-page woodcut, 1/2r Hartlieb's prologue, 1/3v prologue of pseudo-Eusebius, 1/4v text, 16/7v colophon, 16/8 blank). 147 (of 156, lacking 1/3,10, 3/1, 5/1.10, 13/5.6, 16/1, and blank 16/8; folios 1/3 and 16/1 are supplied from a later edition). 33 lines. Type: 2:118G. Maiblumen capitals (1 b ), outline capitals (2), and 24 (of 28) woodcuts from 21 blocks, handcoloured in red, green, yellow, orange and brown. (Bifolia 1/5.6 misbound as outermost sheet of quire 3 and 6/5.6 misbound as central sheet of quire 1, first leaf reversed in binding, a few light stains and very light dampstains, some light spotting in fore-edges of final leaves, small marginal tear in fos. 1 and 141 repaired, some worm-tracking in gutter.) Early paper boards, vellum manuscript spine (spine repaired). Provenance : small pointing hands stamped in as text markers; a few marginal notes in German in an early hand. A rare edition, the fourth in German, with only one copy recorded in America (at Cleveland Public Library), and GW recording a total of only six copies. For his editions of the Alexander Magnus , of which this is the second, Sorg took over the woodcuts previously used by Bämler and supplemented the series with new ones, some merely replacement copies but others new depictions of scenes. In the Klotz copy they are superbly coloured by hand in bright, fresh colours. The full-page woodcut opening the book has been interpreted variously as portraying Eusebius, Alexander, or Hartlieb. H *788; GW 886; Goff A-405; Schreiber 3135; Schramm IV, pp.15 & 50; BSB H-285

Auction archive: Lot number 5
Auction:
Datum:
2 Nov 1994
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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