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[BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA -- LEAF BOOK]. The Nuremberg 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 (CLXXXI) FROM THE FIRST LATIN EDITION OF 1493, tipped in as issued. Original publisher’s quarter sheepskin, marbled sides, red leather lettering–piece gilt, uncut (spine worn with losses).

LIMITED EDITION, number 92 of 300 copies. Publisher’s prospectus laid in. [With:] 2 additional leaves from the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle laid in (CXV and CCXXIII).

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