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BASSEUS, Nicolaus. Collectio in unum corpus omnium librorum... qui in nundinis Francofurtensibus ab anno 1594. usque ad nundinas Autumnales anni 1592... venales extiterunt, Frankfurt: Nicolaus Basseus, 1592.
2 parts only (of 3) in one volume, 4° (209 x 156mm.), woodcut device on titles and on final colophon leaf, final blank in volume II (neat repair to upper blank margin of first title, some small marginal tears to first ten leaves), contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, covers elaborately blocked in blind with central portrait of Emperor Charles V on the upper cover and his arms on the lower cover, brass clasps (spine somewhat rubbed, one clasp slightly defective). Provenance: G.R.V. (?)Bellisle (inscription dated 1600 on upper cover).
A valuable compilation by Bassaeus (or Bassé) of Willer's semiannual Frankfurt book fair catalogues from 1564 to 1592: an early international general bibliography listing 10,500 Latin titles and 5,500 German language titles. The original owner evidently did not buy the third part, a pamphlet of 60pp., listing about 600 titles in Italian, French and Spanish. Besterman 334.
2 parts only (of 3) in one volume, 4° (209 x 156mm.), woodcut device on titles and on final colophon leaf, final blank in volume II (neat repair to upper blank margin of first title, some small marginal tears to first ten leaves), contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, covers elaborately blocked in blind with central portrait of Emperor Charles V on the upper cover and his arms on the lower cover, brass clasps (spine somewhat rubbed, one clasp slightly defective). Provenance: G.R.V. (?)Bellisle (inscription dated 1600 on upper cover).
A valuable compilation by Bassaeus (or Bassé) of Willer's semiannual Frankfurt book fair catalogues from 1564 to 1592: an early international general bibliography listing 10,500 Latin titles and 5,500 German language titles. The original owner evidently did not buy the third part, a pamphlet of 60pp., listing about 600 titles in Italian, French and Spanish. Besterman 334.
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