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AUGSBURG CHRONICLE -- Ursprung und Anfang Augsburgs. [Augsburg: Johann Bämler, 14]83.
Royal half-sheet 8°, sheet 1/3-6 chancery full-sheet 4° (191 x 132mm). Collation: [1-48] (1/1r blank, 1/1v full-page woodcut, 1/2r text, 4/8v colophon). 32 leaves. 25 lines. Type: 3:119G. Full-page woodcut view of Augsburg, 5 other woodcut illustrations, woodcut Maiblumen, outline, lombard and other initials. ALL ILLUSTRATIONS AND THE MAIBLUMEN INITIAL COLOURED BY AN EARLY HAND. Fo. 1/2r printed in black only, as all copies except Augsburg (cf. GW and Hubay). (Full-page cut mounted, repairing neat tear, very light soiling on first two leaves.) 19th-century German quarter dark green roan, flat spine gilt, marbled edges (a little rubbed). Provenance: Jos. Beuter (stamp).
FIRST AND ONLY 15TH-CENTURY EDITION of this history of Augsburg, written with special reference to the Benedictine monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra. It gives a history of those and other saints, the monastic church, and bishops, and ends with a long list of relics to be found at the monastery. The publication of this guide by Bämler is particularly interesting in light of his association with the monastic press established under Abbot Melchior Stamhaim, where his type 2 was used (probably by him at the monastery) in 1473-74. Two woodcuts were cut specifically for this edition: the large town view and the destruction of the monastery. VERY RARE: one of only 5 copies recorded, the others are at Munich, Library of Congress (Rosenwald collection) and Augsburg (2 copies). H 1942; GW 2860; BSB-Ink. A-841; Hubay, Augsburg, 205; Schramm III, 23 and 26; Schreiber 3391; Baer, Historienbücher, pp.45-46, XII, no. 52; Goff A-1213.
Royal half-sheet 8°, sheet 1/3-6 chancery full-sheet 4° (191 x 132mm). Collation: [1-4
FIRST AND ONLY 15TH-CENTURY EDITION of this history of Augsburg, written with special reference to the Benedictine monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra. It gives a history of those and other saints, the monastic church, and bishops, and ends with a long list of relics to be found at the monastery. The publication of this guide by Bämler is particularly interesting in light of his association with the monastic press established under Abbot Melchior Stamhaim, where his type 2 was used (probably by him at the monastery) in 1473-74. Two woodcuts were cut specifically for this edition: the large town view and the destruction of the monastery. VERY RARE: one of only 5 copies recorded, the others are at Munich, Library of Congress (Rosenwald collection) and Augsburg (2 copies). H 1942; GW 2860; BSB-Ink. A-841; Hubay, Augsburg, 205; Schramm III, 23 and 26; Schreiber 3391; Baer, Historienbücher, pp.45-46, XII, no. 52; Goff A-1213.
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