Apr 11, 2024 - Sale 2665

Sale 2665 - Lot 37

Price Realized: $ 4,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 9,000
Anonymous.
Gesta Rhomano[rum] cu[m] applicationibus moralisatis ac misticis.

Strasbourg: Johann Gruninger, 18 February 1488.

Folio, text printed in gothic type in two columns throughout, hand rubricated in red, blue and green; ex libris Archduke Franz Ferdinand, with his stamp on n3 recto; bound in full modern marbled paper over boards; some worming to contents; title page reduced to a small trimmed 1 1/4 x 3 inch rectangle containing the three lines of text only and mounted on a sheet of modern wove paper; first leaf mounted on a guard, thumbing, water stains, a few repaired losses to blank margins in the first signature; small hole to final leaf repaired on blank verso; a large, unwashed copy; stray contemporary marginalia; o2 in the Tabula with marginal paper flaw that has been torn, leaving a tear with loss to the blank outer margin; housed in a modern cloth folding case; 11 1/4 x 7 3/4 in.

ISTC ig00291000; Goff G-291; BSB-Ink G-209; GW 10896.