Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 114

Price Realized: $ 2,860
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
APPIANUS. Historia Romana. Latin translation by Petrus Candidus Decembrius. Part 2 (of 2): De bellis civilibus [and other texts]. [209] (of [212]) leaves, with c2r blank as issued: lacks initial blank, a8, and c8. Roman type. Woodcut white-on-black three-quarter border on a2r and ornamental initials throughout. 4to, 271x194 mm, modern blind-ruled leather; a2 trimmed and inlaid to size with soiling on recto and a few letters supplied in ink on verso, repair in blank upper margin of a10, scattered dark stains, early underscoring and partly cropped marginalia. (Venice: Bernhard Maler, Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477)

Additional Details

Second edition of Appian's history of Roman wars after the first of 1472. Hain 1307; GW 2290; BMC V, 244; Goff A928; ISTC ia00928000.