May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 216

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
Erasmus (1466-1536)
Opus de Conscribendis Epistolis.

Paris: Simon de Colines, 1536.

Octavo, title page printed within printer's woodcut compartment incorporating his shield and initials with a rabbit on each side, lacking final two blank leaves [z7 & z8]; [bound with] Christoph Hegendorff's (1500-1540) Methodus Conscribendi Epistolas, Paris: Wechel, 1538, one or two marginal notes meticulously scraped from the very surface of the page; nine blank leaves inserted between the two works, of which five are covered with contemporary notes in Latin containing additional epistles, back endleaves similarly covered; pale lilac-colored ink wash to parts of titles and woodcut printer's devices, likely contemporary, done by a reader; bound in attractive full calf, neatly tooled in blind, with contemporary paper spine label, spine with five raised bands, endcaps and endbands intact, fore-edge title in ink, some minor cracking to joints, generally very good; dated 19th century ownership inscription to first title, 6 3/4 x 4 1/8 in.

Erasmus: Adams E-559; Hegendorff: not in Adams; rare at auction.