[Rarebooks] FS: First book illus. by Schaeufelein, Nuremberg: 1519

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[Pinder, Ulrich]. SPECULUM PASSIONIS DOMINI NOSTRI JESU CHRISTI... 
(Nuremberg: Federicum Peypus, Impressum. Impensis, Georgii Glockenden. 1519). Folio. 
ff.lxxviii. Black letter, double column text. Illustrated with 39 large (full 
page) woodcuts (3 repeats) and 1 small one. Modern    vellum,   spine with 5 
raised bands. Title leaf a bit soiled. The first 2 woodcuts have been hand-colored 
in a somewhat pastel appearance (using orange, green & yellow). Some light 
marginal stains to a few leaves, and the final leaf with a few small wormholes 
just into the outer margin of a woodcut. One leaf (K1 verso) with 28 lines of 
early mss. notes. Overall a very nice, clean copy with good impressions of the 
woodcuts.     $12,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
This is the second edition (the first is 1507) of an important early woodcut 
book, the first book to be illustrated by H. L. Schaeufelein (1480-circa 
1540). Thirty of the large Passion subjects are by Schaeufelein. Other cuts are by 
Hans Baldung Grien and Wolf Taut. BL German STC p. 697. Procter 11132. Murray. 
German Books #333. Not in Adams. The OCLC records only 2 copies.

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