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BOCCACCIO, Giovanni

De Claris Mulieribus
Berne
excudebat Mathias Apiarius
(colophon: 1539)
€1.400 - €2.000

"Small folio (29 x 20 cm). [6] + lxxxi + [1] ll. With 2 different versions of the publisher's bear & honey-tree device (on the title-page and last page) and 13 woodcut illustrations plus 2 repeats (7,5 x 14 cm) by Ik (Jakob Kallenberg). Further with one woodcut border strip used as a tailpiece, and with the main text in a fine roman type in the ""Basel"" style introduced by Peter Shoeffer the younger. With the 18th century Nürnberg armorial bookplate (also showing a bear with beehive) of Johann Conrad Feurelein, Councillor to the city of Nürnberg. 18th century flexible boards covered with blue paste-paper, blue edges. In a modern blue goatskin morocco box. A fine example of woodcut illustration, in one of the earliest books printed in Berne"

Ref. Adams B-2141. BMC STC German p. 129. VD 16, B-5814