[Rarebooks] FS: Mallinkrot's scarce work on the origin of printing. Cologne: 1639-40

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(PRINTING HISTORY) Mallinkrot, Bernard. DE ORTU AC PROGRESSU ARTIS TYPOGRAPHICAE DISSERTATIO HISTORICA in Qua Praeteralia Pleraque ad Calcographices Negocium Spectantia de Auctoribus et Loco Inventionis Praecipue Inquiritur, Proque Maguntinis Contra Harlemenses Concluditur. Cologne: Apud Joannem Kinchium. 1639-1640. First edition. Sm. 4to. (22),126,(10)pp. Index. Printed title dated 1640, added engraved title dated 1639. The engraved title contains portraits of the author, Gutenberg and Fust, as well as a view of a working printing shop. Cont. mottled calf, rubbed, nicely rebacked, red morocco spine label. Quite scarce.	$1,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
Malinkrot was a learned German antiquary who collected everything relating to the discovery and origins of printing. Bigmore & Wyman, Vol. 2, p.16.


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