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STEINMEYER, Vincent. Newe Künstliche Wohlherissene unnd in holtz geschnittene Figuren dergleichen niemahlen gesehen worden. Von den Fürtrefflichsten Künstlichsten und Berühmbtesten Mahlern, Reissern und Formschneydern Als nemblich Albrecht Dürer, Hanss Holbeyn, Hanss Sebaldt Böhem, Hans Scheuflin und andern Teutscher Nation Fürtrefflichsten Künstlern mehr. Frankfurt: J.N. Stoltzenberger for Vincent Steinmeyer, 1619-20.
Oblong 4o (171 x 218 mm). Collation: ):(4 B-Z Aa-Tt4 Vv2 Xx4 Yy2 (Vv1 Vv2, Xx3 Xx4 are folding plates, Yy2 is printed on one large folded sheet). 176 leaves. Title printed in red and black, 350 woodcuts by Hans Weiditz and others, 6 woodcut plates folded. (Hh2, ):(3 torn or repaired, Yy2 torn along fold, some light browning and occasionally light offsetting.) Citron morocco gilt, gilt edges, by J. Mackenzie. Provenance: 18th-century manuscript captions in Dutch added; E.C. Henderson (signature); acquired from Laurence C. Witten, II, 1978.
FIRST EDITION. The introduction addressed to "the art-loving and judicious reader," refers to the artists mentioned on the title page: Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein, Hans Sebald Beham and Hans Leonhard Schäufelein, and further mentions the significance of: Matthias Grünewald ("Matthes von Aschaffenburgk"), Lucas Cranach, Hans Baldung Grien, Georg Pencz ("Georg Bentz"), Hans Burgkmair ("Johan Burgmeier"), Heinrich Vogtherr, and others. The majority of the woodcuts in this work "represent the stock of illustrations in the hands of the publisher Steinmeyer, the earliest of them (apart from a few odd ones from various sources) originating with Grimm and Wirsung of Augsburg 1520, passing with others successively through the hands of H. Steiner of Augsburg and then Egenolff and Feyrabend, both Frankfurt" (Fairfax Murray). Many of the woodcut illustrations that appear in the Newe Künstliche Figuren can be traced to the Cicero (Steiner, 1531 see lot 146) and Petrarca (Steiner, 1539 see lot 282), and are by an artist whose name has been forgotten, according to the preface: "welche ein Vortrefflicher uund Hochberümpter Meister (wiewol ohene seinen darbey gesetzten namen) gerissen und geschnitten." The anonymous Master was identified with Hans Burgkmair by Muther, and more recently with Hans Weiditz, by Campbell Dodgson, but neither attribution has been universally accepted. The other woodcuts are from various sources, including: Grüninger's Press, Ll1 depicting Columbus and the New World; from Ptolemy, Strassburg, 1525; Tt1v and 2 by Hans Burgkmair, the first one signed "HB" originally used in 1519; three are by Hans Schäfelein and others. VERY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current no other copy has sold at auction in the last 35 years. Fairfax Murray German 402.
Oblong 4o (171 x 218 mm). Collation: ):(4 B-Z Aa-Tt4 Vv2 Xx4 Yy2 (Vv1 Vv2, Xx3 Xx4 are folding plates, Yy2 is printed on one large folded sheet). 176 leaves. Title printed in red and black, 350 woodcuts by Hans Weiditz and others, 6 woodcut plates folded. (Hh2, ):(3 torn or repaired, Yy2 torn along fold, some light browning and occasionally light offsetting.) Citron morocco gilt, gilt edges, by J. Mackenzie. Provenance: 18th-century manuscript captions in Dutch added; E.C. Henderson (signature); acquired from Laurence C. Witten, II, 1978.
FIRST EDITION. The introduction addressed to "the art-loving and judicious reader," refers to the artists mentioned on the title page: Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein, Hans Sebald Beham and Hans Leonhard Schäufelein, and further mentions the significance of: Matthias Grünewald ("Matthes von Aschaffenburgk"), Lucas Cranach, Hans Baldung Grien, Georg Pencz ("Georg Bentz"), Hans Burgkmair ("Johan Burgmeier"), Heinrich Vogtherr, and others. The majority of the woodcuts in this work "represent the stock of illustrations in the hands of the publisher Steinmeyer, the earliest of them (apart from a few odd ones from various sources) originating with Grimm and Wirsung of Augsburg 1520, passing with others successively through the hands of H. Steiner of Augsburg and then Egenolff and Feyrabend, both Frankfurt" (Fairfax Murray). Many of the woodcut illustrations that appear in the Newe Künstliche Figuren can be traced to the Cicero (Steiner, 1531 see lot 146) and Petrarca (Steiner, 1539 see lot 282), and are by an artist whose name has been forgotten, according to the preface: "welche ein Vortrefflicher uund Hochberümpter Meister (wiewol ohene seinen darbey gesetzten namen) gerissen und geschnitten." The anonymous Master was identified with Hans Burgkmair by Muther, and more recently with Hans Weiditz, by Campbell Dodgson, but neither attribution has been universally accepted. The other woodcuts are from various sources, including: Grüninger's Press, Ll1 depicting Columbus and the New World; from Ptolemy, Strassburg, 1525; Tt1v and 2 by Hans Burgkmair, the first one signed "HB" originally used in 1519; three are by Hans Schäfelein and others. VERY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current no other copy has sold at auction in the last 35 years. Fairfax Murray German 402.