Oct 18, 2005 - Sale 2052

Sale 2052 - Lot 103

Price Realized: $ 1,150
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
DIOSCORIDES, PEDACIUS. De medica materia libri V. De letalibus venenis, eorumque precautione & curatione [etc.] . . . lib. unus. Greek text with Latin translation and commentary by Marcellus Vergilius. [28], 756, [3] pages, including final blank * BARBARO, ERMOLAO. In Dioscoridem corollarioru[m] libri quinque. [1], 78 [i. e., 79] leaves; lacks the 2-leaf index at end. Together, 2 volumes in one. Folio, old vellum, spine slightly wormed, with white ink shelf number, front joint cracked; occasional heavy browning, first work has restoration in blank lower corner of approximately the first 30 leaves, old signatures and stamp on title, scattered cropped early marginalia, oxidized ink blots on n4 with resulting small holes affecting a few letters, second work has light dampstaining in upper margins with slight paper corrosion along top edges toward end and marginal restoration on last few leaves not affecting text, bookplate removed. Durling 1134, 470. Cologne: Johannes Soter, August 1529; February 1530