Oct 12, 2023 - Sale 2648

Sale 2648 - Lot 59

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
Erasmus, Desiserius (d. 1536)
Apophthegmatum Libri Octo.

Basel: Officina Frobeniana, 1535.

Octavo, woodcut printer's devices to title and verso of colophon leaf; 17th century ownership signature to title; some scattered early marginalia; bound in full contemporary alum tawed pigskin over boards elegantly blind-tooled in blind, somewhat rubbed, generally good; some internal water staining, 6 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.

Ex libris Christopher Clark Geest (1936-2023)