Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 62

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
HIERONYMUS, Saint. Epistolae. [151] (of [152]); 178; 202 leaves, including the 5 blanks, with index to each part bound before rather than after the text; lacks the title with woodcut by albrecht dürer. 3 parts in one volume. Gothic type. Folio, 299x205 mm, 19th-century calf blocked in blind, spine ends chipped, cover corners worn through, rear cover detached; marginal dampstaining at beginning and end, scattered cropped early marginalia, first leaf of index to first part heavily soiled and covered with old inscriptions with blank lower outer corner torn and restored, repaired clean tear in 2H4 and hole in 2H5 causing slight text loss. Bookplate of Sebastian Evans. (Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 1497)

Additional Details

Sixteenth edition; the first was published circa 1467. Hain-Copinger 8565; BMC III, 772; ISTC ih00176000.