[NUREMBURG] Triumph-Wagen der Keuschheit, woodcut broadsheet showing a procession of the Virgin with 24-line explanatory verse and decorative border, Nuremburg: George Scheurer, [dated 1588 in manuscript], 313 x 163mm., window-mounted -- Vera atque perspicua ichnographia portae triumphalis ... Eigentliche abbildtung derienigen Ehrenportten so dem Allerdurchleüchtigisten Gross mächtigtsten und Unüberwindtlichisten fürsten und dern Herrn Matthiae erwähltem Kïyszer etc. ein Edler Ehrnuester Rath der Statt Nürnberg ... von dem zu Franckfurt am Maïyn gehaltenem kaïyserlichen Wahl und Kronungstag den 9. Julïy dieses ... MDCXII Jars, engraving by Petrus Iselberg Agrippa of the coronation gateway with text in Latin and German, [n.p., n.d.], 665 x 460mm. (3mm. clean tear to lower part, slight creasing and soiling), window-mounted. With a large, early woodcut of Strassburg Cathedral printed by Bernhard Jobin, [n.d.], with 96-line inset poem on the history of the cathedral, 525 x 365mm. (some damage, mainly to blank areas, and repaired tears), also window-mounted. (3)

Details
[NUREMBURG] Triumph-Wagen der Keuschheit, woodcut broadsheet showing a procession of the Virgin with 24-line explanatory verse and decorative border, Nuremburg: George Scheurer, [dated 1588 in manuscript], 313 x 163mm., window-mounted -- Vera atque perspicua ichnographia portae triumphalis ... Eigentliche abbildtung derienigen Ehrenportten so dem Allerdurchleüchtigisten Gross mächtigtsten und Unüberwindtlichisten fürsten und dern Herrn Matthiae erwähltem Kïyszer etc. ein Edler Ehrnuester Rath der Statt Nürnberg ... von dem zu Franckfurt am Maïyn gehaltenem kaïyserlichen Wahl und Kronungstag den 9. Julïy dieses ... MDCXII Jars, engraving by Petrus Iselberg Agrippa of the coronation gateway with text in Latin and German, [n.p., n.d.], 665 x 460mm. (3mm. clean tear to lower part, slight creasing and soiling), window-mounted. With a large, early woodcut of Strassburg Cathedral printed by Bernhard Jobin, [n.d.], with 96-line inset poem on the history of the cathedral, 525 x 365mm. (some damage, mainly to blank areas, and repaired tears), also window-mounted. (3)

More from Printed Books

View All
View All