May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348

Sale 2348 - Lot 81

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
HILARIUS, Saint, Bishop of Poitiers. Lucubrationes. Edited by Desiderius Erasmus. Title within woodcut historiated architectural border incorporating vignette of Cleopatra committing suicide. [24], 435, [1]; 418, [34] pages. Folio, 305x208 mm, contemporary 1/4 blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, brass catches, lacks clasps; occasional toning and minor marginal dampstaining, worming in blank lower margin of approximately the last 50 leaves. Early Würzburg Carmelite ownership inscription on title; 19th-century bookplate of Meadville Theological School (W. H. Furness gift), their perforated stamp on title and a few other leaves. Basel: Officina Frobeniana, February 1523

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first erasmus edition of the collected writings of St. Hilarius. Vander Haeghen II, 31.