Collijn, Isak (Gustav Alfred)

[INCUNABULA REFERENCE / SWEDEN]. Katalog der Inkunabeln der Kgl. Bibliothek in Stockholm. Teil 1, Teil 2 (Heft 1) + Tafelbd. 1. -- TOGETHER WITH: Katalog över Kungl. bibliotekets i Stockholm (1940)

Stockholm: 1914-1916. First Edition. Together 3 vols. 8vo. and folio. 32, 330; [4], 4, 104, [8] pp. + 6 plates. One full-page plate in Teil 1 (Taf. VIII) and 15 illustrations in Teil 2 (Heft 1). Atlas: [6], 88 pp. (150 facsimiles). Original printed wrappers. Paper spines somewhat soiled, that of Teil 1 a little stained; the margins of the 1940 Supplement very fresh and unopened. Item #2220

The most important catalogue of rich collection of incunabula at the KB Stockholm, written by a formidable scholar of fifteenth-century printing and the leading authority on early Swedish printing: Isak Collijn. The Atlas volume features 150 full-page reproductions. The first two volumes describe 1,122 entries TOGETHER WITH: Supplement that was issued in 1940, describing 360 additions from 1915-1939.

¶ From the famed bibliographical library of B.H. Breslauer (sale of the Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana, Third Portion, 2005, lot 1429).

ADDED: Two copies of the Supplement: the first is preserved near-fine, unopened condition; the second copy, unfortunately waterstained, is INSCRIBED by Isak Collijn to the great bibliographer Josef Benzing.

Price: $200.00