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  copyFeatures: 'Both parts bound together; leaves 1 and 430 (a1, M6) missing, replaced with facsimile.'
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    - Record created by Martyna Grzesiak.
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  physicalDescriptionNote: "Copy washed. Sellers marks on front flyleaf verso ('12' and '4' in pencil), back flyleaf recto ('M.II.2' in pencil). Also on back flyleaf recto, ms pencil notes with collation in English, and below in German edition details together with previous shelfmarks (7.ital.Bibel, Chr. Rel. T IV, Bibel A II 2 Italienisch)."
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      note: 'Part of Tessier sale (see bibliography above), lot no. 323.'
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          name: 'Rosenthal, Jacques'
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          name: "Essling, Victor Massena, Duc de Rivoli e Prince D'"
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      bindingNote: "Binding by Marcellin Lortic (1852-1928), of Lortic Frères, signed 'M. Lortic' on the upper turn-in. Dark olive-green Morocco, gilt-tooled edges and turn-ins, with the characteristic turn-in gilt roll design that incorporates the initials of the owner ('VM'), bordure in red Morocco, with the armorial supralibros in gilt at the centre, in the Ducal variant that was in use before the acquisition of the title of Prince d'Essling. VM monogram on the spine. Binding dated 1905."
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      note: "On front flyleaf verso, '7378' in blue ink in a 19c hand. Similar four-digit numbers are found found in other books that belonged to the Essling library, however it remains to be seen whether such numbers served as shelfmarks or inventory numbers. "
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      note: 'Number 10 in the Librairie F. Roth, Lausanne catalogue no. 8, 1944 (see Bibliography above). This is presumably where Bodmer acquired the book.'
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      note: Martin Bodmer. Choix d'incunables illustrés de la Bibliothèque Bodmer. Zürich Artemis-Verl. 1954. pp.24-25.
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          name: 'Schäfer, Otto'
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      note: " On back flyleaf recto, small round stamp in the shape of a letter 'S' within a circle (i.e. OS), followed by '908' in pencil."
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      note: |-
        Lot 29 in the Dec. 8th 1994 sale, with estimated price of $100,000-150,000, unsold.
        Put up for auction again in 1996, Sotheby's New York, Dec 4, 1996, lot 225, $50,000 hammer price (source: American Book Prices Current).
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        end: 1996
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          name: 'Los Angeles, University of California UCLA'
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          name: Martin Breslauer (Firm)
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      note: |-
        "Purchased at Sotheby's auction of Dec. 4, 1996 by Martin Breslauer on behalf of UCLA Library" (source: UCLA online library catalogue).
        Printed exlibris of the Ahmanson-Murphy Early Italian Printing Collection, and small, red oval UCLA library stamp.
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  shelfmark: '* A1 .B471I 1490'
  source: |-
    Katalog eines grossen Theils der Bibliotheken des verstorbenen Cavaliere Andrea Tessier und des Marchese de *** : [hervorragende Sammlung von Inkunabeln, illustrierten Büchern des XV. Jahrh., schönen Einbänden, Landkarten, Musik, Kunst-Blättern u. s. w.]; Versteigerung am 21., 22. u. 23. Mai 1900. Jacques Rosenthal, München, 1900. no. 323.
    Leo Olschki, 'Vendite pubbliche'. La Bibliofilía, vol. 2, no. 3/5 (1900), p. 153.
    Catalogue De Très Beaux Livres: Voyages, Histoire Naturelle, Calligraphie Et Typographie, Modes Et Costumes. Lausanne: Librairie F. Roth, 1944. nr. 10.
    Martin Bodmer. Choix d'incunables illustrés de la Bibliothèque Bodmer. Zürich Artemis-Verl. 1954. pp.24-25.
    Manfred Von Arnim, and Otto Schäfer. Katalog Der Bibliothek Otto Schäfer, Schweinfurt. Stuttgart: E. Hauswedell, 1984. no. 54.
    Sotheby's New York. The Collection of Otto Schäfer Part I: Italian Books. New York, Thursday December 8th 1994. no. 29.
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