Apr 21, 2009 - Sale 2176

Sale 2176 - Lot 37

Price Realized: $ 420
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
(CONSTANCE, COUNCIL OF.) Acta scitu dignissima docteque concinnata Constantiensis concilii celebratissimi. [170] (of [172]) leaves; lacks a2 and g7. 8vo, 18th-century 1/2 calf; minor worming at beginning and end, dark stains in approximately the last quarter of the volume. (Paris): Jean Petit, (12 May 1506)

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Scarce early edition of the Acts of the 1414-18 Council of Constance, originally published in 1500 from a manuscript by Hieronymus de Croaria. CCFR records the BN, Lyon, and Poitiers copies; OCLC and RLIN locate only the Cambridge copy.