Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 59

Price Realized: $ 9,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(BIBLE IN LATIN.) [Biblia cum Postillis Nicolai de Lyra.] With commentary by Guillelmus Brito, Paulus Burgensis, and Matthias Doering. Volumes 2 and 3 (of 4): Ezra-2 Maccabees. Woodcut illustrations in Volume 3, including 4 full-page. 370; 348 leaves. Gothic type. Rubricated, and with 5-line painted initial U on first page of Volume 2 and 4-line initial N on first page of Volume 3, both in blue on gold ground. Together, 2 volumes. Folio, 285x206 mm, disbound; occasional soiling, some headlines shaved, scattered early marginalia and underscoring, marginal dampstaining at end of both volumes, puncture through upper margin of opening leaves in Volume 2 affecting a few letters, some browning in Volume 3, small piece missing from blank outer margin of 2Q7, ugly cellophane tape repair across 3M10v. Later Tachov ecclesiastical library inscriptions. [Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1487]

Additional Details

Tenth Koberger Vulgate, and second from his press to include the Postilla of Nicolaus de Lyra. Hain-Copinger 3167; GW 4289; BMC II, 431; ISTC ib00614000.