Lot 119
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GEILER VON KAISERSBERG, JOHANN. Passion des Heren Jesu...Fürgeben und geprediget... Neulich (a)uss dem latyn in tütsche sprach transsveriert durch Johannem Aldephum physicum von Strassburg. Strassburg: Johannes Grüninger 1514. Folio, 270 x 200 mm. (10 5/8 x 7 7/8 in.), nineteenth-century dark brown morocco, gilt arms of William Stirling-Maxwell at center of upper covers, his gilt monogram on lower cover, spine gilt-lettered, turn-ins gilt, g.e., the front pastedown endpaper with his large ex-libris printed in red and black, extremities rubbed, upper inner hinge cracked, repaired 6-inch tears to fols. F3 and F4, a few minor marginal repairs, occasional small stains or minor discoloration, some of the rubrication reinforced (or supplied) with modern coloring, washed and pressed.

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GEILER VON KAISERSBERG, JOHANN. Passion des Heren Jesu...Fürgeben und geprediget... Neulich (a)uss dem latyn in tütsche sprach transsveriert durch Johannem Aldephum physicum von Strassburg. Strassburg: Johannes Grüninger 1514. Folio, 270 x 200 mm. (10 5/8 x 7 7/8 in.), nineteenth-century dark brown morocco, gilt arms of William Stirling-Maxwell at center of upper covers, his gilt monogram on lower cover, spine gilt-lettered, turn-ins gilt, g.e., the front pastedown endpaper with his large ex-libris printed in red and black, extremities rubbed, upper inner hinge cracked, repaired 6-inch tears to fols. F3 and F4, a few minor marginal repairs, occasional small stains or minor discoloration, some of the rubrication reinforced (or supplied) with modern coloring, washed and pressed.

FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, Gothic type, double column, 18 large woodcuts, including title woodcut signed with Geiler von Keisersberg's monogram ("DIK") and 14 full-page cuts, approximately 25 smaller woodcuts in the text, woodcut initials. Rubricated: paragraph marks and capital strokes in blue and red. RARE. Adams G-314; BM/STC German, p. 335 ("1513"); VD 16, G 747 (Munich SB copy only).

Provenance: Benedictines of Tegernsee, ownership inscription on title, "Iste liber attinet Venerabili Monasterio S. Quirini Regis et martyris in Tegernsee. Emptus anno domini 1517 Sunt xix" (tallying 19 quires, A-T) -- Fr(ater) Geor(gius), early signature on title -- Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, bookplate, Keir book label on lower endpaper (sale, Christie's London, 30 May 1958, lot 204) -- (from Lardanchet, 1970, unidentified catalogue/97).