Lot 1: ANDREAE, JOHANNES

Super arboribus consanguinitatis, affinitatis et cognationis spiritualis. Nuremberg : Friedrich Creussner, 1483 Chancery folio (11 5/8 x 8 in.; 288 x 203 mm). Type 1:110G, 3 woodcuts. 34 lines, initial spaces. collation : [1 10 ]: 10 leaves. Rubricated (major initial a blue lombard with red and blue filigree, red lombards, red capital strokes, the woodcut diagrams highlighted in red; the cut on fol. 4v shaved at top and bottom, that on 8r slightly shaved at top, that on 10v with two wormholes slightly affecting one of the roundels, outer margin of fol. 4 turned in to preserve the width of the woodcut. Nineteenth-century vellum, decorated in blind, edges plain.

Goff A-612; Hain 1035*; GW 1697; Schreiber 3284; BSB-Ink I-296; Bod-inc. A-249

Dr. Jakob Klatzkin, 1882-1948 (bookplate)

The next to last of seventeen editions by Creussner of Andreae's tractate on degrees of consanguinity and affinity. Most of these added, as here, a separate tractate on spiritual relationships, as created by godparents and their families. The three diagrammatic woodcuts are so much larger than the type-pages that many if not most copies are trimmed to some degree.