Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 3

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
GELLIUS, AULUS. Noctium Atticarum libri undeviginti. [32], 289, [51] leaves, including final leaf with colophon and device. 8vo, 157x98 mm, 18th-century red morocco gilt, spine faded; marginal soiling on opening leaves, light dampstain in upper margin of several leaves toward end, darker stains on last few leaves, heavy browning on rear endpapers. Stamp of the Collegium Sanctae Annae; bookplate of Henry J. B. Clements. (Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, September 1515)

Additional Details

only aldine edition; first state of V4r, with "duerniorem." Renouard, page 73(9); Ahmanson-Murphy 138.