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Auction archive: Lot number 602

MALLINCKROT, Bernardus à (1591-1664) De ortu ac progressu a...

Estimate
US$3,000 - US$4,000
Price realised:
US$3,750
Auction archive: Lot number 602

MALLINCKROT, Bernardus à (1591-1664) De ortu ac progressu a...

Estimate
US$3,000 - US$4,000
Price realised:
US$3,750
Beschreibung:

MALLINCKROT, Bernardus à (1591-1664). De ortu ac progressu artis typographicae . Cologne: Johannes Kinchius, 1640 (changed in manuscript at the publisher's to 1639).
MALLINCKROT, Bernardus à (1591-1664). De ortu ac progressu artis typographicae . Cologne: Johannes Kinchius, 1640 (changed in manuscript at the publisher's to 1639). 4 o (194 x 146 mm). Engraved historiated frontispiece by the Cologne artist Johann Eckhard Löffler incorporating portraits of the author, Gutenberg and Fust, and a detailed scene of a printing shop at work. (Some browning of the paper in the first work.) Contemporary vellum. Provenance : Johann Georg Burckhard (1684-1764), lawyer and archivist at Brunschweig with an extensive library (bookplate printed on large sheet used as pastedown); John Slocum; acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1988. FIRST EDITION of the work which contains the first use of the word "incunabula" in connection with printing. Published on the occasion of the celebration of the second centenary of Gutenberg's invention, Mallinckrot's monograph is the first thorough investigation of the early testimonies to the discovery of printing. He firmly comes down in favor of Mainz against Haarlem. Additional chapters discuss later printing, including the Complutensian and Plantin polyglot Bibles. The engraved title includes a portrait of the author, as well as Gutenberg and Fust; the lower compartment depicts the interior of a printing-office. Preliminary i1 is a cancel replacing 4, and i4 in this copy is bound at end. The Grolier copy contains cancelland 4, which is the same as i1, but omits last 5 lines of i1v. Bigmore & Wyman II, 16.

Auction archive: Lot number 602
Auction:
Datum:
20 Jun 2013
Auction house:
Christie's
20 June 2013, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

MALLINCKROT, Bernardus à (1591-1664). De ortu ac progressu artis typographicae . Cologne: Johannes Kinchius, 1640 (changed in manuscript at the publisher's to 1639).
MALLINCKROT, Bernardus à (1591-1664). De ortu ac progressu artis typographicae . Cologne: Johannes Kinchius, 1640 (changed in manuscript at the publisher's to 1639). 4 o (194 x 146 mm). Engraved historiated frontispiece by the Cologne artist Johann Eckhard Löffler incorporating portraits of the author, Gutenberg and Fust, and a detailed scene of a printing shop at work. (Some browning of the paper in the first work.) Contemporary vellum. Provenance : Johann Georg Burckhard (1684-1764), lawyer and archivist at Brunschweig with an extensive library (bookplate printed on large sheet used as pastedown); John Slocum; acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1988. FIRST EDITION of the work which contains the first use of the word "incunabula" in connection with printing. Published on the occasion of the celebration of the second centenary of Gutenberg's invention, Mallinckrot's monograph is the first thorough investigation of the early testimonies to the discovery of printing. He firmly comes down in favor of Mainz against Haarlem. Additional chapters discuss later printing, including the Complutensian and Plantin polyglot Bibles. The engraved title includes a portrait of the author, as well as Gutenberg and Fust; the lower compartment depicts the interior of a printing-office. Preliminary i1 is a cancel replacing 4, and i4 in this copy is bound at end. The Grolier copy contains cancelland 4, which is the same as i1, but omits last 5 lines of i1v. Bigmore & Wyman II, 16.

Auction archive: Lot number 602
Auction:
Datum:
20 Jun 2013
Auction house:
Christie's
20 June 2013, New York, Rockefeller Center
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