LUDOLF DE SAXE - Lot 2

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LUDOLF DE SAXE - Lot 2
LUDOLF DE SAXE Boeck van den leven ons heeren ihesu Christi. Antwerpen [Antwerp], Gheraert Leeu [Gerard Leeu], November 3, 1487. In-4 (247 x 178 mm) of [87] ff. [5] ff. without signature (except one inverted: signed a3 on verso with a large full-page woodcut on recto), aa-nn6 oo4). Fawn basane, boards decorated with cold rolled geometrical frames, spine decorated in cold (18th century binding). A very fine illustrated incunabula edition of this Dutch version of the Vita Christi by Ludolph of Saxony (1300-1378). It is decorated with about 80 woodcuts, 8 of which are full-page, and numerous ornate woodcut initials. Many of the woodcuts appear here for the first time, but most were designed and engraved especially for the books printed by Gerard Leeu in Gouda and Antwerp from 1482, Bellaert in Haarlem and G. de Os in Gouda. A beautifully and fully colored copy of the period but very incomplete (leaves and quires a1, a2, a4, b8, c-f6, g8, h-z6, A-L6, oo5, oo6 are visibly missing). Long note in Dutch pasted to the upper back cover. A small marginal tear without missing 2 leaves, restoration in the outer margin of a few leaves, some of which are reassembled, a few leaves show soiling and wetness, some old annotations in pen. Wet stamp erased on folio hh5. A few chipped leaves with marginal paper loss, old restoration to the binding Proctor 9369. Hain 10048. Rosenthal Bookstore Munich, catalog 164 "Incunabula", 1925, no. 1, marked 6000 reichsmark.
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