The L. H. P. Klotz Collection: Incunabula, German Illustrated Books and Atlases, 1994-11-02
Scope and Contents
(Including the first edition in German of Historia Alexandri Magni, 1473; Antoninus Florentinus's Summa Theologia, 1477-79; a tall copy of Balbus's Catholicon, ca.1475, in a contemporary Augsburg binding; an illuminated copy of the ninth German Bible, 1483; the first edition of Jacobus de Theramo's Belial, 1472, and Knoblochtzer's edition of the German text, 1478; Schonsperger's 1498 edition of Plenarium, with contemporary hand-colouring, in a contemporary Augsburg binding; a finely coloured copy of the Gruninger Virgil, 1502; a Strassburg illustrated edition of Steinhowel's translation of Boccaccio's Decameron, 1535; and other illustrated German translations of classical and Renaissance texts; a fine Renaissance binding by Joachim Linck for Joachim, Duke of Anhalt; Willem and Johannes Blaeu's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1640-55; Ortelius's Theatre de l'Universe, 1587; Ptolemy's Liber Geographiae, Venice 1511.)
Dates
- created: 1994-11-02
Creator
- From the Collection: Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc. (Publisher, Organization)
- From the Collection: S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson (Firm) (Publisher, Organization)
- From the Collection: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge (Publisher, Organization)
- From the Collection: Sotheby's (Firm) (Publisher, Organization)
Extent
From the Collection: 621 Volumes
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the Western Michigan University Special Collections Repository
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