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Auction 118, Lot 928

"Missale - CCXXXIIII", Anon.

Subject: Early Printing

Period: 1507 (published)

Publication: Missale … Archiespiscopatus Pragensis Ecclesiae

Color: Hand Color

Size:
8 x 10 inches
20.3 x 25.4 cm
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Lovely sheet printed on fine, hand-laid paper with black and red ink. One side contains a five-line woodblock illustration of what appears to be a person being boiled in a large kettle, with a king overseeing the proceedings.

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Condition: A

Minor stains in blank margins. Soft creases in lower, right corner.

Estimate: $100 - $140

Sold for: $70

Closed on 3/6/2007

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