Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 10

Price Realized: $ 312
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
BAPTISTA MANTUANUS. Parthenice Catharinaria. [4], 105, [1] leaves. 4to, 182x127 mm, later 18th-century vellum boards, top of spine damaged, front joint cracked, cords intact; margins trimmed entering text on preliminaries, scattered early underscoring and cropped marginalia, title and blank last page soiled with early inscriptions, Petit device on title partly abraded. [Paris: André Bocard for] Jean Petit et al., circa 1502

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Later edition of a book-length poem on the life of St. Catherine of Alexandria originally published in 1489, the second in the author's series of hagiographic verse epics. Hain 2376; Polain (Belgium) 480; ISTC ib00073000.