BÄMLER, Johann (1430-1503). Chronik von allen Kaisern, Königen und Päpsten. Augsburg: Anton Sorg, 1480.
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BÄMLER, Johann (1430-1503). Chronik von allen Kaisern, Königen und Päpsten. Augsburg: Anton Sorg, 1480.

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BÄMLER, Johann (1430-1503). Chronik von allen Kaisern, Königen und Päpsten. Augsburg: Anton Sorg, 1480.

Second edition. Johannes Bämler was an illuminator, bookseller, and printer of illustrated books. HC *9793; GW 3164; BMC II, 348; BSB-Ink T-575; Schreiber 3755, ISTC ib00009000; Goff B-9.

Chancery folio (285 x 213mm). 166 leaves, with the final blank, heading of the four parts printed in red, two full-page woodcuts, woodcut initials (light marginal staining in first and last leaves, occasional minor thumb-soiling). Contemporary Stuttgart blindstamped calf over wooden boards [Kyriss 21], pastedown from Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia by Jacobus de Voragine, Augburg: Anton Sorg, 1478 (repairs at head and foot of spine and corners, lightly scuffed). Provenance: W. H. I. (inscription on rear pastedown); another ex-libris removed.
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