Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 17

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
BARKER, NICOLAS. Aldus Manutius and the Development of Greek Script & Type in the Fifteenth Century. Folio, 329x227 mm, original red cloth; bookseller's pencil note on front endleaf, contents otherwise 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 from the first Aldine editions of Aristotle (Volume 4), 1497; Crastonus, Dictionarium Graecum, 1497; Euripides, 1503; and the Septuagint, 1518.