16th Century German Letterpress and Woodcut Book Pages from "Wunderwerck"

Item Details

Various artists, anonymous
Pages from Wunderwerck, oder Gottes unergründtliches Vorbilden (“Miracle, or God’s Unfathomable Portents”), 1557
Woodcut illustrations with letterpress type on laid paper
Unsigned
Pages from Johann Basilius Herold’s German translation of Conrad (Wolfhardt) Lycosthenes’ Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon (“Chronicle of Prodigies and Portents”)
Printed by the workshop of Heinrich Petri, Basel
Inscriptions to mat folders
Five loose leafs and two mounted within paper mat folders

Provenance
From the estate of Nick Bubash.

Condition

- varying toning and foxing to prints pages; wrinkles to prints; text indentations from verso are visible through page of larger print; toning and edge wear to mat folders; one loose leaf has underlined words in blue crayon.

Dimensions

- measures one of the mat folders; pages 7.5" W x 11.5" H.

Item #

ITMG270088