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Nuremberg Chronicle Leaf Book - JH Nash
Nuremberg Chronicle Leaf Book - JH Nash
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Heading: (Leaf Books - Nuremberg Chronicle)
Author: Bullen, Henry Lewis
Title: The Nuremberg Chronicle or, The Book of Chronicles from the Beginning of the World, the most famous German picture books of the fifteenth century... a monograph... with a leaf from the first Latin edition
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:John Henry Nash for the Book Club of California
Date Published: 1930
Description:


XXV pp. Illustrated with a tipped-in leaf from the first Latin edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle, plus frontispiece and reproductions in the text. (Folio) original leather-backed marbled boards. Unnumbered copy to match the edition of 300 copies.



Original leaf is folio CLXXXI, with 12 woodcuts (7 on recto, 5 on verso) covering the year of Christ 1004 (year of the world 6203). Depicted are Otto II, King Edward, the philosopher Alpharabius (Alfarabi), Louis IV, and others. On the verso are woodcuts of popes John XVI, Gregory V, John XVII, Silvester II, and John XVIII. The second of the club's many leaf books. BCC 38. Prospectus laid in.

Condition
Chips, cracks and rubbing to spine and joints; a few minor stains to marbled paper covering boards; toning to endpapers; leaf shows some light foxing and toning, a few minuscule chips at fore-edge; about very good.
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