Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Samuel Maroccanus, Das Jhesus Nazarenus der ware Messias sey, Zwickau, 1524, modern marbled wrappers

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2,400 - 3,200 GBP

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SAMUEL MAROCCANUS. Das Jhesus Nazarenus der ware Messias sey. Derhalben die Juden auff kaynen andern warten dörffen. Zwickau: Johann II Schönsperger, 1524


FIRST EDITION of a rare work, whose title-page features THE EARLIEST WOODCUT OF A VERTICAL LIBRARY with books standing on tail-edges, fore-edges outward, attributed to the Meister der Zackenblätter.

4to (186 x 143 mm). Gothic type, 35 lines. collation: A-H4: 32 leaves. Title-page with large woodcut illustration, woodcut arms of Zwickau on A2v, a few marginal annotations in a sixteenth-century hand.


binding: Modern marbled wrappers (187 x 145 mm), red edges.


provenance: Jean-François Van de Velde, doctor & professor in theology (1743-1823), ownership inscription on title-page, sale, Ghent, 8 August 1833, lot 4699—Howard Osgood of Rochester, NY (1835-1911), clergyman professor at Rochester Seminary, ownership inscription on title-page—Rochester Theological Seminary Library (Rockefeller Fund), pressure stamp—Reiss & Sohn, Königstein im Taunus, 21 October 2003, lot 191. acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. references: USTC 627173; VD16 S 1570

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