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BRAUN, Placidus Ignatius (1756-1829). Notitia historico-litteraria de libris ab typis typographicae inventione usque ad annum MDCCCLXXVIIII [- MCCCCLXXX , part 2]. Impressis: in bibliotheca liberi, ac Imperialis Monasterii ad SS. Udalricum et Afram Augustae extantibus . Augsburg: Veith, 1788. 2 parts in one, 4 o (246 x 194 mm). 11 engraved folding plates. (Some spotting.) Nineteenth-century brown half morocco, marbled boards. Provenance : Paul Hirsch (bookplate, his pencilled note that the 1466 Eggestein Bible is here still attributed to Bämler). FIRST EDITION of Braun's catalogue of seventy-five incunables at the Benedictine abbey at St. Ulrich und Afra in Augsburg, with eleven plates delineating the alphabets used by several printers. Bigmore & Wyman I, 79.