Live auction - Lot 776
[Bible - Apocalypse]
Apocalypsis Ioannis. Die Offenbarung S. Johannis.
Frankfurt a M., Chr. Egenolff, 1551
€ 800 / 1.000
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Lot description
Sm. 8vo: [16] ff. (toned).
Mod. half leather, marbled paper on covers, red edges (rubbed). Very good copy.
Fascinating illustrations of the Apocalypse: 30 half-page woodcuts, 27 of which by Hans Sebald Beham (1500-1550). Woodcut title ill., followed by 29 woodcuts with captions in Latin (above) and German (below). First publ. in a separate ed. in 1539, the present work was apparently issued as part of a set of 3 alongside ills of the Old and New Testaments. Ref. VD-16 B-5273. - STC German (BL) 123. - Not in Adams, Bibles Paris.