Gilhofer & Ranschburg (Wien); Gilhofer, Buch- und Kunstantiquariat; Gilhofer & Ranschburg: Katalog (Nr. 222): Fine and important books from 1468 to 1920 recently added to our stock: main headings: alchemy, Americana, books on art, bibles, bibliography, bindings, Bodoni, children's books, classics, commerce, costume, folklore, freemansonry, genealogy, geography, history, horses, illustrated books (18th cent.), incunabula, Judaica, literature (English, French, German and Italian), liturgies, medecine, mystics, natural science, periodicals, philosophy, woodcut-books (16th cent.), etc. : there are further: fine naval prints, a collection of reports on Illyria, rare Swiss leaflets, etc. (Wien: Gilhofer & Ranschburg, [ca.1930])

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Woodcut-Books of the 16th Century continued Swiss FraaC3
The extreme rarity of this valuable treasure of Romances is easily ex-
plained by the fact that this was not a “library-book” but a popular book
par excellence. Thus copies were continually being read and used up.
The blank leaf A4 is missing, leaf 90 in facsimile; margins a little narrow.

722

See Reproduction on page 144.
Cortesius, Paulus. In sententias. Qui in hoc opcre eloquentiam cum theolo-
gia coniunxit. Basel, Froben, 1513. fol. 6 unn., 52 numb. 11. Title and four
pages enclosed in very fine borders by Urs Graf. Half-vellum, both covers with
incunable-paper. 150.—
Panzer VI, p. 190. Passavant, Peintre-Grav. Ill, p. 432, no. 144.
Fine copy of this work of Cortesius (1465—1510), adorned with excellent borders. The upper
part of the title-border represents the figure of Humanitas with Virgil, Homer, Cicero and Demosthenes.
In the lower part is the monogram of Urs Graf.

The other borders are beautifully figurated. Some initials on black ground in the text.
Our copy is in the best state of preservation.

J05odtist confitendf.


Title-page of No. 720. Andreas de Escobar.
(Rome, ca. 1505.) (Original size.)

GILHOFER & RANSCHBURG, WIEN I, BOGNERGASSE Nr. 2.