Scope and Contents Framed Medieval wood cut, hand colored. Showing hunters with crossbows and supporting serfs with spears. Produced: Hans Burgkmair. 8 5/8" x 7 3/4" The Weiss Kunig was one of three books commissioned by Emperor Maximillian I (1459-1519). The book chronicles Maximillian’s life and represents his court as an ideal chivalric society. Maximillian is unusual in adopting the woodcut as the medium for large –scale schemes of patronage. Woodcut was cheap and therefore less prestigious...

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Leaf from Ship of Fools by Sebastian Brant. Chapter 20, "Of Finding Treasures". B/W woodcut illustration by Albrecht Dürer. Image:  B/W 4 5/8" x 3 3/8". Pictured in Vol 2 Albrecht Dürer: Das gesame graphische Werk Druckgraphik [Complete Graphic Works]. Page 1347.

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Leaf out of Ship of Fools by Brant. B/W Woodcut illustration by Albrecht Dürer. Reference Volume 2 Albrecht Dürer: Das gesame graphische Werk Druckgraphik [Complete Graphic Works]. Page 1415. 4 5/8" x  3 3/8"

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Leaf from Ship of Fools by Sebastian Brant. Captre 108, "The Schluraffen Ship". B/W  woodcut with text.. Image size 4 5/8" x 3 3/8" Illustrator: Unknown (not a Durer)

Scope and Contents Inculabulum. Woodcut of Medieval battle hand colored non-contemporary with printed text in Low Middle German. Professional paper restoration to right corner. 10 3/4" x 8" The Saxon Chronicles were written by Conrad Botes (Konrad Bothes), a goldsmith, around 1492. It was a "world " history that began with Noah's flood and progressed to regional local history of Saxony.The woodcuts are masterful and attributed only to Masters H and HR. The...

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Woodcut scene of Baltimore City. Bears monograph GP in lower left corner.  4 1/8" x 9"

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Front and back. Chapter 1 and part of Chapter 1. Old German. 13 1/2 x 9. To view all leaves, scro;; down to and open Digital Objects.