Nov 08, 2007 - Sale 2127

Sale 2127 - Lot 64

Price Realized: $ 2,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
BUCHANAN, GEORGE; et al. Franciscanus & fratres, quibus accessere varia eiusdem & aliorum poemata [16], 319, [1]; 176, 143 pages. Some use of Hebrew type. 3 parts in one volume. 8vo, early deerskin(?), heavily worn, spine and joints cracked; title lightly soiled, occasional early underscoring. Basel: Thomas Guarinus, [1568]

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first edition of a 3-part collection of Neo-Latin verse. The previously published works by Buchanan in the first part comprise the satires on monasticism Franciscanus and Fratres fraterrimi; the biblical tragedy Jephthes; and translations of the Medea and Alcestis of Euripides. The second part contains poems by Adrien Turnèbe, Michel de l''Hôpital, and Jean Dorat; the third consists of Karel Utenhove''s Astragalus. Shaaber B698; VD16 B8977; overlooked by Alden (for references to Brazil on pages 51-53).