Oct 12, 2006 - Sale 2088

Sale 2088 - Lot 176

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(LEAF BOOK.) Bartholomaeus Angelicus. Three Lions and the Cross of Lorraine: Bartholomaeus Angelicus, John of Trevisa, John Tate, Wynkyn de Worde, and De Proprietatibus Rerum. Single leaf of De Proprietatibus Rerum, the first book printed on paper made in England; numerous text illustrations. 4to, morocco-backed boards. Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1992

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number 108 of 138 numbered copies. Written in the thirteenth century by Bartolomaeus Angelicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum was one of the most popular medieval encyclopedias. It was printed by Wynken de Worde in 1495.