?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
GREGORIUS I, Pope. Pastorale, sive Regula pastoralis. [105] (of [106]) leaves; lacking final blank. Gothic type. Rubricated. 4to, 214x144 mm, early 19th-century marbled boards, later morocco back and corners; occasional light soiling; cloth folding case. [Cologne: Ulrich Zel, not after 1470]
first edition. Hain-Copinger 7981; GW 11440; BMC I, 187; Goff G436; ISTC ig00436000. From the libraries of the Benedictine Abbey of Maria Laach, with early ownership inscription ('liber bte marie in Lacu'), and Georg Kloss, with his bookplate (sale at Sotheby, 15 May 1835, lot 1873).
