Incunabula and 16th-Century Books from the Collection of Bengt Ollfors
Incunabula are the earliest printed western books, printed from the mid-15th century up to and including the year 1500. Their appearance differs from later books i.a. by the absence of a title-page, with the bibliographical information printed in the colophon instead, usually on the final leaf. Many books of the early 1500s preserve the archaic characteristics of incunabula. They are often just as rare and sought-after, and are sometimes called “post-incunabula”.
24 items
1120699
BOOK,
Gutenberg’s invention of printing recorded in 1518.
Hammer price
8 020 SEK
Estimate
5 000 SEK
1120721
BOOK,
Beautiful woodcut border on title and large device of Schoeffer, Mainz 1524.
Hammer price
3 350 SEK
Estimate
4 000 SEK
1120701
BOOK,
Editio princeps of Buchanan’s “Psalmorum paraphrasis”, c. 1565.
Hammer price
2 800 SEK
Estimate
3 000 SEK
