Apr 21, 2009 - Sale 2176

Sale 2176 - Lot 182

Price Realized: $ 210
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
ALEXANDER DE VILLA DEI. The "Costerian" Doctrinale of Alexander de Villa Dei reproduced in Collotype Facsimile with an Introduction by Stephen Gaselee. Large 8vo, original 1/4 morocco. Signature of Sir Frederick Kenyon dated 1953; bookplates of Lloyd Kenyon and Helmut N. Friedlaender. Cambridge: Roxburghe Club, 1938

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Facsimile of the only complete copy of a Dutch prototypographic edition of Alexander de Villa Dei''s Latin grammar (GW 935, at Cambridge), one of a group of undated Netherlands imprints probably produced no earlier than the 1460s.