Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 49

Price Realized: $ 375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
HERODOTUS. Herodoti . . . libri novem. Latin translation by Lorenzo Valla. Title within 4-part woodcut historiated border showing the labors of Hercules; another 4-part woodcut border on A1r. [28], 274, [2] pages, including final blank. Folio, 297x192 mm, old vellum boards, lacking backstrip; contents toned or browned, scattered early underscoring and cropped marginalia, partly repaired conspicuous wormtrails through first half of volume affecting some text, sales slip mounted on rear pastedown. Harvard College Library bookplate and stamps (Alain Campbell White gift, released). Hoffmann II, 235. (Cologne: Eucharius Cervicornus for Godefridus Hittorpius), 1537