Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 96

Price Realized: $ 7,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
ESTIENNE, ROBERT. Alphabetum Graecum. Greek and Latin text. [16] leaves. 8vo, 168x112 mm, 19th-century gilt- and blind-stamped pebble-grain leather, spine ends and cover corners worn; contents toned with occasional foxing and soiling. Paris: Ex officina Roberti Stephani, 1543

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first edition of a Greek primer containing the first use of the first font of the Greek types cut by Claude Garamond, known as the Grecs du Roi. Vervliet, The Palaeotypography of the French Renaissance I, 110.