[Rarebooks] FS: Very rare early Augsburg Breviary. Venice: 1519

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(CATHOLIC CHURCH. LITURGY AND RITUAL. BREVIARY. AUGSBURG) BREVIARUM SECUNDUM 
RITUM ALME ECCLESIE AUGUSTENSIS, Pars Estivalis [title misprinted “Pars 
Hyemalis”]. (Venice:   Petri Lichtenstein, Imprensis Joannis Oswalt. 1519). 8vo. 
ff.(12),410 (actually ff.376: text misnumbered 1-340;375-410),46. Double column 
text. Printed throughout in red & black. Title with a large woodcut, 4 
full-page text woodcuts, 4 other leaves with fine woodcut borders (each illustrated 
with 8 scenes), and one half-page woodcut. Printer’s device on 2B4 and on final 
leaf of register. Cont. blind tooled pigskin, somewhat worn. Both fore-edge 
clasps present. Some old text soiling.     $2,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
A very rare edition of this finely printed Breviary for the Diocese of 
Augsburg. Our volume is the second volume (of 2), complete in itself for the second 
half of the year. The “Pars Hyemalis” is not present. These volumes often 
appear separately. See Bohatta BIBLIOGRAPHIE DER BREVIERE #1934 (only 1 copy 
recorded).

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