[Rarebooks] FS: Nuremberg Chronicle leaf book (w/2 fine city views)

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(LEAF BOOKS) Shaffer, Ellen. THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE. A Pictorial World 
History from the Creation to 1493... With a Leaf from the Pirated Augsburg 
Latin Edition of 1497. Los Angeles: Printed at the Plantin Press for Dawson's 
Bookshop. 1950. Folio. (14),62pp. Bibliog. Illus. Title printed in red and 
black. Edition ltd. to 300 numbered copies, printed by Saul & Lillian Marks at 
the Plantin Press. Pictorial blue cloth, stamped in red. Plain paper d.j. 
Fine. A presentation copy inscribed on a blank preliminary by Ellen Shaffer to 
Michael D. Hurley, dated January 23, 1950.      $500.00 (trade discount 
allowed)
The original leaf in this copy has two large woodcut city views: one of 
Aquileia (Aquila); and one of Tarvisium (Treviso). DISBOUND AND DISPERSED, 
#103.

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