May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 3

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
LIVIUS, TITUS. Historiarum ab urbe condita, libri, qui extant, XXXV. With scholia by Carlo Sigonio. [4], 478; 98, [40] leaves. Folio, 340x240 mm, 18th-century mottled sheep gilt with red and green morocco lettering pieces, front joint cracked, cords intact, recased; marginal dampstaining on preliminaries, general title soiled, dampstaining in lower margins through second half of volume. Signature of the Duke of Grafton dated 1788 on general title; 18th(?)-century armorial bookplate with motto "virtus in haeredes" on front pastedown. Venice: Paulus Manutius, 1555

Additional Details

first sigonio edition. Renouard, page 166.