Sale 2563 - Lot 63
Additional Images
![](https://www.swanngalleries.com/media/mediashare/lof/gallery/album/i/m/img_5387_2.jpg)
![](https://www.swanngalleries.com/media/mediashare/lof/gallery/album/i/m/img_5386_3.jpg)
![](https://www.swanngalleries.com/media/mediashare/lof/gallery/album/i/m/img_5385_2.jpg)
![](https://www.swanngalleries.com/media/mediashare/lof/gallery/album/i/m/img_5384_3.jpg)
![](https://www.swanngalleries.com/media/mediashare/lof/gallery/album/i/m/img_5393_1.jpg)
![](https://www.swanngalleries.com/media/mediashare/lof/gallery/album/i/m/img_5392_1.jpg)
![](https://www.swanngalleries.com/media/mediashare/lof/gallery/album/i/m/img_5391_3.jpg)
![](https://www.swanngalleries.com/media/mediashare/lof/gallery/album/i/m/img_5390_3.jpg)
![](https://www.swanngalleries.com/media/mediashare/lof/gallery/album/i/m/img_5389_2.jpg)
![](https://www.swanngalleries.com/media/mediashare/lof/gallery/album/i/m/img_5388_2.jpg)
10
![](https://www.swanngalleries.com/media/mediashare/lof/gallery/album/i/m/img_5387_2.jpg)
![](https://www.swanngalleries.com/media/mediashare/lof/gallery/album/i/m/img_5386_3.jpg)
![](https://www.swanngalleries.com/media/mediashare/lof/gallery/album/i/m/img_5385_2.jpg)
![](https://www.swanngalleries.com/media/mediashare/lof/gallery/album/i/m/img_5384_3.jpg)
![](https://www.swanngalleries.com/media/mediashare/lof/gallery/album/i/m/img_5393_1.jpg)
![](https://www.swanngalleries.com/media/mediashare/lof/gallery/album/i/m/img_5392_1.jpg)
![](https://www.swanngalleries.com/media/mediashare/lof/gallery/album/i/m/img_5391_3.jpg)
![](https://www.swanngalleries.com/media/mediashare/lof/gallery/album/i/m/img_5390_3.jpg)
![](https://www.swanngalleries.com/media/mediashare/lof/gallery/album/i/m/img_5389_2.jpg)
![](https://www.swanngalleries.com/media/mediashare/lof/gallery/album/i/m/img_5388_2.jpg)
Sale 2563 - Lot 63
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
Holbein, Hans (1497-1543)
Historiarum Veteris Testamenti Icones ad Vivum Expressae.
Lyons: apud Ioannem & Franciscum Frellonios, fratres, 1543.
Third edition, quarto, (lacking N4 final blank), title page with Frellon moth and crab woodcut printer's device, illustrated throughout with ninety-four woodcuts by Holbein; bound in later limp parchment, housed in folding chemise, ex libris Philip Hofer, with his bookplate inside the front cover of the chemise, some spots, fingersoiling, one leaf repaired, 6 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.
Brunet III 252; Graesse III 317; not in Fairfax Murray; Mortimer: Harvard French 279 (Frellon's Spanish edition of the same year); see also Philip Hofer's "Holbein's Old Testament Woodcuts," in The New Colophon, vol. 1, part 2 (April 1948).
Historiarum Veteris Testamenti Icones ad Vivum Expressae.
Lyons: apud Ioannem & Franciscum Frellonios, fratres, 1543.
Third edition, quarto, (lacking N4 final blank), title page with Frellon moth and crab woodcut printer's device, illustrated throughout with ninety-four woodcuts by Holbein; bound in later limp parchment, housed in folding chemise, ex libris Philip Hofer, with his bookplate inside the front cover of the chemise, some spots, fingersoiling, one leaf repaired, 6 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.
Brunet III 252; Graesse III 317; not in Fairfax Murray; Mortimer: Harvard French 279 (Frellon's Spanish edition of the same year); see also Philip Hofer's "Holbein's Old Testament Woodcuts," in The New Colophon, vol. 1, part 2 (April 1948).