[BIBLE -- BINDING] -- Evangelia und epistel wie man sie durch das gantz jar nacheinander inn der kirchen lisst. Nuremberg: Jobst Gutknecht, 1538.
Rare and richly illustrated liturgical work in an attractive Renaissance binding. According to RBH/ABPC, no copies have appeared at auction. Not in Adams or VD 16.
16mo (95 x 75mm). Title in red and black within hand-coloured wood engraved border, 58 woodcuts in the text, 4 hand-coloured. (Lacking Q1 and Q8, the latter probably a blank, light marginal soiling and staining, tear to corner of E2.) Contemporary French calf, gold-tooled and painted strapwork design on sides, spine gilt (upper joint cracked but holding); custom cloth box.
[BIBLE -- BINDING] -- Evangelia und epistel wie man sie durch das gantz jar nacheinander inn der kirchen lisst. Nuremberg: Jobst Gutknecht, 1538.
Rare and richly illustrated liturgical work in an attractive Renaissance binding. According to RBH/ABPC, no copies have appeared at auction. Not in Adams or VD 16.
16mo (95 x 75mm). Title in red and black within hand-coloured wood engraved border, 58 woodcuts in the text, 4 hand-coloured. (Lacking Q1 and Q8, the latter probably a blank, light marginal soiling and staining, tear to corner of E2.) Contemporary French calf, gold-tooled and painted strapwork design on sides, spine gilt (upper joint cracked but holding); custom cloth box.