Feb 28, 2013 - Sale 2305

Sale 2305 - Lot 4

Price Realized: $ 1,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
APOLLONIUS RHODIUS. Argonautica. 224, [4] leaves, including blanks n8, E9-10, colophon leaf, and final leaf with Aldine device on verso. 8vo, 159x96 mm, 18th-century red morocco gilt, spine dulled and brittle, joints cracked, cords intact; scattered foxing, small wormhole through blank lower margin of first few leaves. Signatures of Gilbert Wakefield dated 1797 and Richard Taylor dated 1810; bookplate of Douglas Maxwell Moffat. (Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, April 1521)

Additional Details

first aldine edition. Renouard, page 90(5); Ahmanson-Murphy 199; Hoffmann I, 206.