Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Historia aquatilium.

Accession number
PML 23624
Creator
Marschalk, Nicolaus Thurius, 1460-1525.
Published
Rostock : Thurius, [Nicolaus Marschalk & Günther Winter], 1517-1520.
Notes
2 woodcut borders on t.p.'s, 2 full page woodcuts; intials throughout except for leaves with unfilled spaces. 29 leaves containing 129 woodcuts of fishes. The full page cuts on ff. 57[superscript]b and 66[superscript]b may be after, or adapted from cuts of Lucas Cranach.
Collation: a[superscript]4, A[superscript]4, B[superscript]6, C-L[superscript]4, M[superscript]6, H[superscript]4, I[superscript]4, K[superscript]4 (=3-4 blank, w.?) Note. M[superscript]5 is printed Mii, (? a "cancelled title-page, 1520" pt. a[superscript]5 therefore ... with 5-6 ...) 14[superscript]a, 37 lines. Size of page 8 1/2 x 11 3/6 in. = 208 x 290mm Muther no. 1781.
First ed.; perfect; woodcuts.
On 3rd fly-leaf the woodcut ex-libris (?) of Caspar von Schöneich, Chancellor of the Duchy of Mecklenburg, in which province Rostock is situated.
T.p., last page and others, stained and fixed; 57[superscript]c, (t.p. to Book 3) cut off at bass, injuring the cut; the edges of the leaves stained red.
Description
66 leaves.
Provenance
From the library of Dr. J.M.W. Baumann.
Binding
3/4 calf, gray paper sides.
Classification
Department