Catalogus Novus Nundinarum Vernalium Francofurti Ad Moenum Anno M D Xciiii Celebratarum Eorum

by Johann Georg Portenbach

$3,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

Woodcut arms of the city of Frankfurt on title. 16 leaves. Small 4to, attractive antique calf-backed marbled boards. Frankfurt am Main: J. Saur, 1594 . The spring 1594 catalogue of the Frankfurt Book Fair issued by Portenbach; WorldCat locates two copies in North America. These fair catalogues created a revolution for the book trade. They were the best and, indeed, only source from which scholars and booksellers could discover when and by whom any

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