Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 166

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
BALBUS, JOHANN. Single leaf from a paper copy of the Catholicon, with entries from Aliqu[an]tus to Altare. Gothic type, 66 lines, 2 columns, no watermark. Rubricated. Folio, 364x282 mm; slight chipping along gutter and fore edges. [Mainz: Printer of the Catholicon, not before 1469]
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From the first edition of a Latin glossary originally compiled in the 13th century, the first dictionary to appear in print, and the first book to identify its place of printing. Hain-Copinger 2254; GW 3182; BMC I, 39; ISTC ib00020000.