May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 103

Price Realized: $ 1,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
HERODOTUS. Historiae lib. IX, & de vita Homeri libellus. Latin translation by Lorenzo Valla and Conrad Heresbach; edited by Henri Estienne. 4 folding woodcut plates. [32], 256, 12, [24] pages. Folio, old vellum, covers soiled and slightly warped, rebacked with calf; dampstaining in bottom portion of contents throughout with traces of mold and restoration in blank lower margin of opening leaves, scattered marginal foxing, most of front free endpaper torn out. Bookplates of Mr. Weston, William Oliver, M.D., and Norman J. Sondheim. [Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1566

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first estienne edition. Hoffmann II, 235.