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Leaves from Early Printed Books. Five Examples with Woodcuts.
Leaves from Early Printed Books. Five Examples with Woodcuts.
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Leaves from Early Printed Books.
Five Examples with Woodcuts. Including: one full-page woodcut depicting the Fall of Simon Magus in the Apocalypse, or Septima Etas Mundi [Seventh Age of the World], leaf 262 from the Latin edition Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle, uncolored, some marginal closed tears; two leaves from an unidentified early Dutch Bible, depicting Adam & Eve's temptation in and expulsion from the Garden of Eden [folio XII]; and another with two woodcuts showing a horned devil and Jesus perhaps carrying out the cleansing of the temple; both with contemporary hand color; [and] two woodcuts cut from their original pages in the Nuremberg Chronicle depicting Abraham readying the sacrifice of Isaac; and the Judgement of Solomon, both trimmed to the image and matted. (5)
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Leaves from Early Printed Books. Five Examples with Woodcuts.

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