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Stellarium corone benedicte Marie Virginis

Hagenau
Heinrich Gran, for Johannes Rynman
1501

€600 - €900

In-folio (28 x 20 cm), [167] ff, 58 lines, text in 2 columns. Contemporary leather binding over wooden boards, traces of clasps, spine renewed in a later period (rubbed)

"Gran, the first printer to work at Hagenau, printed on his own from 1489 until 1497; he then printed for Rynman until 1523. This author (1430-1504) was a Hungarian Observant Franciscan who wrote a number of texts that were real ""bestsellers"" in his time and in the century following his death. Ref. VD16 P 1207 ; Adams P-571. This book was first printed in 1498, but this edition is just as scarce"

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