Nov 12, 2013 - Sale 2330

Sale 2330 - Lot 6

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
LUCANUS, MARCUS ANNAEUS. [Pharsalia.] [140] leaves, including final colophon leaf. 8vo, 161x98 mm, 19th-century vellum, soiled, front joint cracked; title trimmed and inlaid to size, with old scrawls and smudges, contents otherwise clean; author's name in ink in contemporary hand on bottom edges. 19th-century bookplate of Alexander Johnston, his inscription to R. Ashurst Bowie dated 1872; Harvard College Library bookplates and stamps (Mary Bryant Brandegee gift, released). (Venice: Aldus [Manutius], April 1502)

Additional Details

first aldine edition. Renouard, page 33(3).