Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 5

Price Realized: $ 1,170
?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; contents clean; publisher's red cloth slipcase. Sandy Hook: Chiswick Book Shop, 1985

Additional Details

first edition, limited to 200 copies. Front flyleaf inscribed and signed by barker. 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.