Apr 12, 2016 - Sale 2410

Sale 2410 - Lot 62

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
FRACCO, AMBROGIO NOVIDIO. Sacrorum fastorum libri XII. Title within woodcut architectural border; 16 text woodcuts, including portrait of the author and 12 allegorical representations of Christian feast days; printer's large woodcut device at end. [16], 169 [i. e., 173], [1] leaves, including colophon leaf at end with printer's device on verso. 4to, 228x164 mm, later limp vellum; occasional soiling, scattered marginal foxing and stains, leaves in first gathering of preliminaries reinforced in gutter, title and colophon leaf reinforced along fore edge on verso, blank outer corners restored on leaf after title. (Rome: Antonio Blado, 18 May 1547)

Additional Details

first edition of a book-length poem on the Christian calendar modelled on Ovid's Fasti; first state of the register. Harvard/Mortimer-Italian 198.