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Auction 109, Lot 770

"Missale - CCXXXIIII", Anon.

Subject: Early Printing

Period: 1507 (published)

Publication: Missale … Archiespiscopatus Pragensis Ecclesiae

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Size:
8 x 10 inches
20.3 x 25.4 cm
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Printed on fine hand-laid paper with black and red ink. One side containing a five-line woodblock illustration of what appears to be a person being boiled in a large kettle (medieval torture or simply taking a bath?).

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Condition: A

Minor stains in blank margins.

Estimate: $100 - $140

Unsold

Closed on 12/1/2004

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