Lot 63
  • 63

Mair, Paul Hector

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

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Bericht und antzaigen der loblichen Statt Augspurg aller herren Geschlecht so vor Fünfhundert und mehr Jaren weder yemandt wissen oder erfaren kan daselbst gewont und bis auf Acte abgestorben.  [Colophon: Augsburg: Melchior Kriegstein and his wife Thor, for the author], 1550



Small folio (11 5/8 x 7 3/4 in.; 295 x 196 mm). 157 full-page woodcut portraits of noblemen in armor with their armorial crests, all fully hand-colored, of which 4 are signed "C.W."; title inlaid, some dampstains and browning in first few quires, register leaves lightly browned. 19th-century vellum.

Provenance

Dr. Kurt Mayer-Sambraus (modern bookplate)

Literature

Lipperheide Rc 6

Condition

title inlaid, some dampstains and browning in first few quires, register leaves lightly browned.
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Catalogue Note

First edition and a handsomely colored copy of this celebration of the noblemen of Augsburg. The woodcuts have been attributed to Hans Weiditz.