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

by Elias Willer Georg

$3,250 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

20 leaves. Small 4to, attractive antique calf-backed marbled boards. Frankfurt am Main: N. Bassée, 1594. The autumn 1594 catalogue of the Frankfurt Book Fair; WorldCat locates one copy in North America. The Frankfurt catalogues, issued twice a year by Georg Willer starting in the autumn of 1564, created a revolution for the book trade. “Before that date printers visiting the fair must have had to write out by hand countless lists of new books to

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