Apr 21, 2009 - Sale 2176

Sale 2176 - Lot 40

Price Realized: $ 510
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
CÓRDOBA, ANTONIO DE. De indulgentiis tractatus. [40], 480, [4] pages, including penultimate errata leaf and final blank. 8vo, contemporary blind-stamped vellum, spine darkened, ties lacking; contents generally clean, minor soiling and stains on title, short vertical paper crack at top without text loss. Early ownership inscription of Lambach Abbey in Upper Austria; signatures of J. V. D. Smith dated 1888 and Harris B. Rothkowitz dated 1919. Ingolstadt: Wolfgang Eder, 1585

Additional Details

First edition to appear in Germany of the treatise on indulgences by a Spanish Franciscan theologian (1485-1578), originally published in 1554 at Alcalá. VD16 C5063; this edition not in Palau.