Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 178

Price Realized: $ 7,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Curtius Rufus, Quintus (1st century CE)
The Historie of Quintus Curtius, Conteyning the Actes of the Great Alexander.

London: Abel Jeffes, 1592.



Octavo, translated from Latin to English by John Brende from Christoph Bruno's Historia Alexandri Magni; with a lengthy contemporary note on preliminary blank facing the title; bound in contemporary limp parchment, tooled in gilt, aeg.; lacking ties; housed in a custom full red morocco folding box, 5 5/8 x 3 1/2 in.

STC 6146; ESTC S109171; rare at auction.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.