Apr 12, 2010 - Sale 2210

Sale 2210 - Lot 13

Price Realized: $ 6,480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
AUGUSTINUS, AURELIUS, Saint. De civitate Dei. With commentary by Thomas Waleys and Nicolaus Trivet. Woodcut in 2 compartments on title verso showing St. Augustine above and the Two Cities below. 264 leaves. Gothic type. Folio, 298x205 mm, late 18th-/early 19th-century 1/2 straight-grain morocco gilt, cover corners worn through, front cover detached; occasional light marginal soiling and foxing, later crude rubrication on a2r and a3r, few early marginalia. 19th-century signatures of M.(?) Watts Bussell and William H. R. Lykins; bookplates of Lykins and Henry Preston Child. (Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 18 February 1489/90)

Additional Details

GW 2889; BMC V, 437; Essling 73; Goff A1245.