Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 143

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
EUSEBIUS of Caesarea. Historia ecclesiastica. Latin translation by Rufinus of Aquileia. [164] (of [172]) leaves, with leaves 48-49 and 164-66 bound between leaves 41 and 42; lacks leaves 1-3, 8-10, 37, and final blank. Roman type. Folio, 286x202 mm, first 31 leaves disbound and loose, the remainder bound in modern alum-tawed leather; early marginalia throughout in humanistic hand, loose leaves soiled and dampstained with traces of mold, contents of bound volume washed with residual soiling on first and last pages, last leaf rehinged with edges silked; linen folding case. sold as is. (Mantua: Johannes Schallus, [not before 15] July 1479)

Additional Details

Fourth edition; the first appeared in 1474. The Greek original text was first published in 1544. Hain-Copinger 6711; GW 9437; BMC VII, 933; ISTC ie00127000.