JACOBUS PHILIPPUS DE BERGAMO. 1434-1520.
Supplementum Chronicharum. Venice: Bernardinus Rizus, February 15, 1492.
Folio (315 x 210 mm). 270 ll. a10 b-z8 [*-***]8 A-F8 2A-B6. Woodcut frontispiece depicting six days of Creation, surrounded by elaborate woodcut border to this and to following page, woodcut scenes and views throughout, woodcut initials. Later vellum, title penned to spine. Light dampstain, a few stray spots, some marginalia, front hinge cracked with text block partially separated from binding, an attractive, well-margined copy overall.
Provenance: Vollbehr (bookplate); Dr. S.D. Contuma (ownership signature to title); Bernardine Murphy (bookplate).
SECOND ILLUSTRATED EDITION, used as a model for Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493. Hain 2809; Proctor 4962.
Folio (315 x 210 mm). 270 ll. a10 b-z8 [*-***]8 A-F8 2A-B6. Woodcut frontispiece depicting six days of Creation, surrounded by elaborate woodcut border to this and to following page, woodcut scenes and views throughout, woodcut initials. Later vellum, title penned to spine. Light dampstain, a few stray spots, some marginalia, front hinge cracked with text block partially separated from binding, an attractive, well-margined copy overall.
Provenance: Vollbehr (bookplate); Dr. S.D. Contuma (ownership signature to title); Bernardine Murphy (bookplate).
SECOND ILLUSTRATED EDITION, used as a model for Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493. Hain 2809; Proctor 4962.
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