Sale: 366 / Rare Books including Marine Art, May 17./18. 2010 in Hamburg Lot 184

 
Paulus Wann - Sermones de tempore. Angeb.: Lochmayer, M., Sermones de Sanctis. 1497.


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Paulus Wann
Sermones de tempore. Angeb.: Lochmayer, M., Sermones de Sanctis. 1497.
Estimate:
€ 8,500 / $ 9,095
Sold:
€ 10,200 / $ 10,914

(incl. surcharge)
Wann, P., Sermones de tempore. With 1 decorative initial in red and blue at the beginning as well as drawn in lombards in red and blue . Hagenau, Heinrich Gran for Joh. Rynmann 1497. 266 unnumb. ll. (of which 1 blank). Gothic type, 2 cols., 51 lines. - Bound in: Lochmaier, M. , Sermones de sanctis. With drawn in lombards in red. Ibidem. 25. VII. 1497. 251 unnumb. ll. (lacking the last blank). Gothic type, 2 cols., 51 lines. - Somewhat later ,onastery binding over wooden boards with blindtooled pigskin and 2 clasps. Small folio.

I: Hain/Cop. 16145. - Goff W 6. - BMC III, 685. - BSB W-7 - Polain 4037. - Second edition of the famous collection of sermons, first released in Passau in 1491. "Paul Wann was born in Kemnath in Upper Palatinate, studied in Würzburg and Heidelberg was active at the Vienna unioversity for a long time. In 1477 he was capitular in Passau where he died in 1489 .. [His sermons] offered homiletic material for thousands of clerics." (abbr. translation of quote from H. Niedermeyer, in: Archiv f. Gesch. des Buchwesens LXI, p. 2719).
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II: Hain/Cop. 10173. - Goff L 271. - BMC III, 684. - BSB L-217. - Polain 2511. - Second edition, first released in 1491. As appendix to Sermones de sanctis of Paulus Wann.
Slightly unevenly browned, with traces of damp in places, head margin cropped close in places, some early ownership entries and marginalia, 1 empty page with long contemporary entries. Joints with small wormtracks. All in all nice sammelband with 2 early Hagenau prints.

Two Hagenau printings in 1 volume, each second edition (first 1491). With painted lombards in red or blue and some rubrication. Somewhat later monastery binding over wooden boards with blindpressed pigskin and 2 clasps. - Lacking last blank leaf in the 2nd work. Mostly even slight browning, here and there waterstaining, upper edge partly cropped close, few early inscriptions and marginalia, 1 blank page with contemp. entry. Joints with small wormtraces. In general well-preserved.




184
Paulus Wann
Sermones de tempore. Angeb.: Lochmayer, M., Sermones de Sanctis. 1497.
Estimate:
€ 8,500 / $ 9,095
Sold:
€ 10,200 / $ 10,914

(incl. surcharge)