Apr 09, 2015 - Sale 2379

Sale 2379 - Lot 81

Price Realized: $ 6,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
BONAVENTURA, Saint. Opuscula. Full-page woodcut tree of the life of Christ on Volume 1 title verso, hand-colored at an early date, repeated without coloring on 3B6v in Volume 2; full-page woodcut of angel on 3D1r in Volume 2. [382] and [368] (of [370]) leaves; Volume 2 lacks title (with tree of Christ woodcut on verso) and final blank. Gothic type. Rubricated. 2 volumes. Folio, 293x212 mm, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards with brass cornerpieces, catches, and clasps, lacks center bosses, recased, endpapers renewed, title lettered in ink on spines at later date; attractive set, with only occasional light toning or marginal soiling, few tiny wormholes in blank margins at end of Volume 2. Large bookplates of the Freiherrlich Moritz von Bethmann'sche Bibliothek. (Strassburg: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], 1495); (18 December 1495)

Additional Details

Fifth edition of the collected shorter writings, originally published in 1484-85. Hain-Copinger 3468; GW 4648; BMC I, 144; Goff B928; ISTC ib00928000.