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COLOGNE CHRONICLES-- Die Cronica van der hilliger Stat van Coellen. Cologne: Johann Koelhoff the younger, 23 August 1499. Median 2° (321 x 222mm). Collation as GW. 354 leaves (of 368, lacking first 12 leaves containing first title and register). 49-51 lines, table in 2 columns. Gothic types. (Second title browned and mounted, marginal tears repaired in several leaves, some staining, heavier in quires M, h, i and z, quire z browned, aa1 torn with loss supplied in ms., small wormholes.) 367 woodcuts. Contemporary blindstamped half calf over wooden boards, possibly an Erfurt binding by Ulrich Frenckel, a pierced-heart stamp very similar to Schunke Schwenke-Sammlung Herz 41, two brass fore-edge catchplates (somewhat worn and repaired, rebacked, lacking clasps). FIRST EDITION. H *4989; GW 6688; BMC I, 299; VK 324; Goff C-476.
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COLOGNE CHRONICLES-- Die Cronica van der hilliger Stat van Coellen. Cologne: Johann Koelhoff the younger, 23 August 1499. Median 2° (321 x 222mm). Collation as GW. 354 leaves (of 368, lacking first 12 leaves containing first title and register). 49-51 lines, table in 2 columns. Gothic types. (Second title browned and mounted, marginal tears repaired in several leaves, some staining, heavier in quires M, h, i and z, quire z browned, aa1 torn with loss supplied in ms., small wormholes.) 367 woodcuts. Contemporary blindstamped half calf over wooden boards, possibly an Erfurt binding by Ulrich Frenckel, a pierced-heart stamp very similar to Schunke Schwenke-Sammlung Herz 41, two brass fore-edge catchplates (somewhat worn and repaired, rebacked, lacking clasps). FIRST EDITION. H *4989; GW 6688; BMC I, 299; VK 324; Goff C-476.

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COLOGNE CHRONICLES-- Die Cronica van der hilliger Stat van Coellen. Cologne: Johann Koelhoff the younger, 23 August 1499. Median 2° (321 x 222mm). Collation as GW. 354 leaves (of 368, lacking first 12 leaves containing first title and register). 49-51 lines, table in 2 columns. Gothic types. (Second title browned and mounted, marginal tears repaired in several leaves, some staining, heavier in quires M, h, i and z, quire z browned, aa1 torn with loss supplied in ms., small wormholes.) 367 woodcuts. Contemporary blindstamped half calf over wooden boards, possibly an Erfurt binding by Ulrich Frenckel, a pierced-heart stamp very similar to Schunke Schwenke-Sammlung Herz 41, two brass fore-edge catchplates (somewhat worn and repaired, rebacked, lacking clasps). FIRST EDITION. H *4989; GW 6688; BMC I, 299; VK 324; Goff C-476.
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