Nov 12, 2013 - Sale 2330

Sale 2330 - Lot 115

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
(GRAMMAR.) Exercitiu[m] gra[m]maticale puero[rum]. [131] (of [132]) leaves; lacks the title with woodcut of master and pupils. Gothic type. Rubricated. 4to, 195x138 mm, early binding of 15th-century liturgical manuscript vellum over pasteboard, front hinge split, front free endpaper lacking; marginal dampstaining throughout, scattered early marginalia. Early owner's manuscript table of contents on recto of rear free endpaper. Bookplate of Eugene Du Bois. [Strassburg: Georg Husner, 2 March 1500]

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Latin grammar for schoolchildren, of which some 15 editions are recorded from 1485 to 1500. Hain-Copinger 6773; GW 9507; BMC I, 162; Goff E137; ISTC ie00137000 (4 copies in the U.S., 7 in Europe).