Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362
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Sale 2362 - Lot 278

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
BONGO [or BUNGO], PIETRO. Numerorum mysteria. Full-page woodcut arms of the dedicatee, Cardinal Ludovico Madruzzo; full-page engraved Bongo arms; woodcut text diagrams. [224], 676, [2]; [8], 77, [3] pages, including final blank. 2 parts in one volume. 4to, 241x171 mm, 18th-century 1/2 vellum with morocco lettering piece, some soiling and stains on covers, corners worn through; intermittent browning or foxing, occasionally heavy, minor worming through rear endpapers. Bergamo: Comino Ventura, 1599
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Exhaustive treatise on numerology originally published in 1584-85. Riccardi I, 202; Thorndike VI, 458-59.