Mar 08, 2018 - Sale 2468

Sale 2468 - Lot 23

Price Realized: $ 552
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
BERCHORIUS, PETRUS. Morale reductorium super tota[m] Bibliam. Title in red and black within woodcut historiated architectural border. [12], 195, [1] leaves, including final blank. Folio, 305x201 mm, old limp vellum with spine title in ink, lacking ties, book block loose in binding; marginal foxing, dampstaining in upper margins at beginning and end, some leaves toned or browned, early underscoring and maniculae. Later owner's notes in Latin completely covering the endpapers. (Basel: Johann Koberger & Adam Petri, 8 June 1517)

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Moralizing encyclopedia of the Bible and the natural world composed in the 14th century and first published as Liber Biblie moralis in 1474. Sarton III, 459.