Description:
Sachs, Hans (1494-1576) Das Funnft und Lezt Buch Sehr herz Liche Schone. Nuremberg: Leonhard Heussler, 1579. Folio, xylographic title page printed in red and black (bottom half trimmed away and replaced with period-looking paper and a large woodcut),text in black letter printed in two columns throughout, woodcut head- and tail-pieces used throughout, in a German binding of alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards tooled in blind and dated 1593 with the title tooled in the front compartment and owner initials, lacking clasps, catches, and corner pieces, 12 3/4 x 8 in.
(:)3 (lacking ?blank (:)4),)(4 (blank )(4 present),A-Z6, a-l6, m8, n-z6, Aa-Yy6, Zz5 (lacking final ?blank Zz6).
Estimate $300-400
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