$2,500
Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800
The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer
Auction: June 19, 2019 11:00:00 AM EDT
Cleveland, ca. 1950. First and only edition, #80/110 numbered sets. 27 mounted manuscript and letterpress leaves, each with a descriptive hinge-mounted letterpress label, enclosed in a folio-size portfolio of purple-brown cloth with black morocco cover label and silk ties.
Contents:
1) Illuminated manuscript leaf on vellum with blue and rubricated initials: St. Jerome, Vulgate Bible, Dominican, France, ca. 1300. Some dampstaining.
2) Manuscript leaf: Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, Erfurt, Germany, ca. 1365. Some dust smudging.
3) Manuscript leaf on vellum: Livy, History of Rome, Italy, ca. 1436.
4) Illuminated manuscript leaf on vellum: Writings of St. Jerome, France, ca. 1475.
5) Letterpress leaf with gilt Illuminated and hand-colored initials: Bible in Latin, Venice: Nicolai Jenson, 1476. (Hain 3061).
6) Letterpress leaf with hand rubrication: Voragine, The Golden Legend, Venice: Antonio de Strata, 1480.
7) Letterpress leaf: Dante, Divine Comedy, Venice: Petrus de Piasio, 1491.
8) Letterpress leaf with woodcut illustration: Schedel, Nuremberg Chronicle, Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1493. With woodcut view used to illustrate both Mainz and Naples.
9) Letterpress leaf in red and black: The Justinian Code, Paris: Thielman Kerver, 1512. With old ink shoulder annotations.
10) Letterpress leaf with historiated woodcut initial: Pliny, Natural History, edited by Erasmus, Basel: Johann Froben, 1525.
11) Letterpress leaf: Erasmus, Adages, Basel: Jerome Froben, 1528.
12) Letterpress leaf with decorated initial and woodcut illustration: Vesalius, Anatomy, Basel: Johannes Oporinus, 1555.
13) Letterpress leaf: Petrarch, Sonnets and Canzoni, Venice: Gabriel Giolito, 1559.
14) Letterpress leaf: Hippocrates, Writings, Venice: Lucantonio Giunta, 1585.
15) Letterpress leaf with hand-colored woodcuts: Gerard, History of Plants, London: John Norton, 1597.
16) Letterpress leaf: Hakluyt, Voyages, London: Robert Barker, 1598-1600.
17) Letterpress leaf: Chaucer, The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, London: Adam Islip, 1602.
18) Letterpress leaf: Cervantes, Don Quixote, Madrid: Juan de la Cuesta, 1608, third Madrid edition.
19) Letterpress leaf: The Holy Bible, King James Version, London: Robert Barker, 1611.
20) Letterpress leaf: Bacon, Francis, The Advancement of Learning, etc., London: John Haviland, 1638.
21) Letterpress leaf: Shakespeare, Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, London: H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, 1685, Fourth Folio.
22) Letterpress leaf: Johnson, Samuel, Noetica and Ethica, Philadelphia: B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1752.
23) Letterpress leaf: Virgil, Poems, Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1757.
24) Letterpress leaf: Montaigne, Essays, Cambridge [Mass.]: Designed by Bruce Rogers, 1902-1904.
25) Letterpress leaf: Milton, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and other Poems, London: Doves Press, 1905.
26) Letterpress leaf: Boccaccio, The Decameron, Chelsea: The Ashendene Press, 1920.
27) Letterpress leaf: Homer, Iliad and Odyssey, Munich: Bremer Press, 1923.
All on paper unless otherwise indicated; contents of above portfolio and contents of the Annotated Chronological Index do not entirely agree.
The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer.