Auction 113
Illustrious Personalities, Holocaust & Anti-Semitism, Historic Documents, Art, Seforim, Letters from Rabbis and Rebbes & manuscripts
By Winner'S
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Apr 8, 2019
3 Shatner Center 1st Floor Givat Shaul Jerusalem, Israel
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LOT 37:
Collection of [12] Leaves of Incunabula with Hand-Painted Woodcut Engravings from the Nuremberg Chronicles. ...
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Sold for: $2,400
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Buyer's Premium: 22%
VAT: 18%
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Collection of [12] Leaves of Incunabula with Hand-Painted Woodcut Engravings from the Nuremberg Chronicles. Nuremberg, 1493
Twelve woodcuts of Biblical scenes. Some hand-painted at a later date.
Nuremberg Chronicles by Hartmann Schedel was printed in Nuremberg, Germany in 1493. It is considered one of the very first printed books. It was printed in German with many engravings of Biblical scenes and world history until the author's time.
Scenes include: Moses and the burning bush; Abraham and Malkitzedek, Noah's ark, Elijah ascending to the heavens, the Golden Calf, Adam and Eve, Solomon's Judgment, and the Binding of Isaac.
Fine-very fine condition.
