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[BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA]. The Nuremburg Chronicle; or, The Book of Chronicles from the Beginning of the World…With a Leaf from the First Latin Edition. Edited by Henry Lewis Bullen. San Francisco: John Henry Nash for The Book Club of California, 1930. Tall slim folio. Frontispiece and numerous in text illustrations after originals from the Chronicle, WITH ORIGINAL LEAF (CCXXXIX) FROM THE FIRST LATIN EDITION OF 1493, tipped in as issued. Leaf includes a woodcut of Emperor Sigismund and a woodcut of a city view. Original publisher’s quarter sheepskin, marbled sides, red leather lettering–piece gilt, uncut (joints worn with some splitting at ends). Provenance: The Lakeside Press (bookplate); Henry Lewis Bullen (1857–1938), ownership signature of the printer and typographic archivist who helped found the Printers Apprentices of New York in 1911, which became part of the New York School of Printing. LIMITED EDITION, number 117 of 300 copies.