Oct 23, 2012 - Sale 2291

Sale 2291 - Lot 17

Price Realized: $ 1,140
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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
BARKER, NICOLAS. Aldus Manutius and the Development of Greek Script & Type in the Fifteenth Century. Folio, 329x227 mm, original red cloth; contents clean; publisher's red cloth slipcase. Prospectus laid in. Sandy Hook: Chiswick Book Shop, 1985

Additional Details

first edition, limited to 200 copies. Tipped in at the end are 4 leaves taken from the first Aldine editions of Aristotle (Volume 4), 1497; Crastonus, Dictionarium Graecum, 1497; Euripides, 1503; and the Septuagint, 1518.