Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 12

Price Realized: $ 1,690
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
AUGUSTINUS, AURELIUS, Saint. De civitate Dei. Large woodcut on verso in 2 compartments showing St. Augustine above and the Two Cities below. [362] leaves. bound after his: De summa Trinitate. [116] leaves. Together, 2 volumes in one, each with title in red and black with printer's device within woodcut historiated border by Urs Graf. Folio, 306x211 mm, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, lacking catches and clasps, small wormholes through covers and front and back of contents slightly affecting some text; paper corrosion along fore edge of first and last few leaves, marginal dampstaining on opening leaves of De summa Trinitate. Rheinfelden Capuchin ownership inscription; signatures of Johannes Kaininiger dated 1519; Christophorus Aichinger, 1550; Burghard Herbort, 1590; and Jacob Bürg or Bürgi, 1597. (Basel: Adam Petri for Johann Koberger in Nuremberg) 1515; 1515