Apr 21, 2009 - Sale 2176

Sale 2176 - Lot 20

Price Realized: $ 4,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(BIBLE IN LATIN.) [Biblia cum Postillis Nicolai de Lyra.] With commentary by Guillelmus Brito, Paulus Burgensis, and Matthias Doering. Volumes 1 and 3 (of 4): Genesis-2 Kings and Isaiah-2 Maccabees. Woodcut illustrations with early hand-coloring. 298 (of 299) and 244 leaves, lacking initial blank in Volume 1. Gothic type. Rubricated. Together, 2 volumes. Folio, 353x235 mm, early 19th-century gilt-panelled calf by J. Winstanley of Manchester, with his ticket, spines badly worn, covers warped and detached; varying soiling and dampstaining, scattered early marginalia, worming in blank upper outer corner of Volume 1 opening leaves, blank upper margin of first leaf trimmed. GW 4291; BMC V, 437; Goff B616. (Venice: [Bonetus Locatellus for] Octavianus Scotus, 8 August 1489)