Apr 25, 2002 - Sale 1933

Sale 1933 - Lot 29

Price Realized: $ 4,830
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(BIBLE IN LATIN.) [Biblia Latina.] 474 (of 476) leaves; lacks a1-2 (first 2 leaves, containing prefatory letter of St. Hieronymus). Gothic type. Rubricated. 4to, 209x147 mm, 18th-century German mottled sheep gilt, joints partly cracked; headlines cropped, scattered foxing, early underscoring and marginalia, first page soiled, with partly scored inscription, old stamp of the University of Heidelberg on verso. (Venice: Franciscus Renner de Heilbronn, 1483)

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GW 4253; BMC V, 198; Goff B578. From the library of Albert May Todd, with his signature dated 1890 and bookplate (lot 79 in the sale of his collection at Parke Bernet, 12 November 1941).<