Item #59613 SINGLE LEAF; extracted from 'Die Chronica van der hilliger Stat van Coellen' (The Cologne Chronicle, 1499). Johann KOELHOFF the younger, 1499 printer of 'Die Chronica van der hilliger Stat van Coellen'.

SINGLE LEAF; extracted from 'Die Chronica van der hilliger Stat van Coellen' (The Cologne Chronicle, 1499)

[Cologne: Koelhoff, 1499]. First edn. Single leaf (10-1/4 x 6-1/4) matted and framed behind glass. This is leaf BBii. A nice bright impression. Item #59613

"One of the two outsatanding productions of early Cologne printing" Steinberg, Five Hundred Years of Printing". Koelhoff is best know for this work and his 1486 Aesop. The Cologne Chronicle is famous for a lengthy passage, that provides the first printed account of the development of printing.

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