Rieffenberg Frederic Auguste Ferdinand Thomas (1 results)

4to. later English nineteenth-century cloth with original paper wrappers bound-in. 33+(1) pages with one additional fold-out facsimile. First separate edition and an offprint from the Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences de Bruxelles. Bigmore and Wyman write "up to the time of [the] publication of this work it was believed that the famous St. Christopher block was the oldest-dated engraving in existence. The author, however, discovered the St. Katherine engraving, which bears a date of 1418." (Bigmore and Wyman II, p.249). Includes a chromolithographed facsimile by printed by G. Severeyns. Binders tag of W. Lewis, Cardiff on inside back pastedown. Minor irregular fading to cloth, offsetting to endpapers, few marginal internal papermends. later English nineteenth-century cloth with original paper wrappers bound-in.