Nov 03, 2006 - Sale 2092

Sale 2092 - Lot 118

Price Realized: $ 1,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
JACOBI, JOHANNES, attributed to. Regimen contra pestilentiam. [6] leaves, the last 2 (Regimen sanitatis) in facsimile. 4to, 195x132 mm, modern 1/4 morocco; genuine leaves toned, with wormhole in blank lower outer corners, light stain and soiling on title. [Cologne: Cornelis de Zierikzee, circa 1500]

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Scarce edition of a plague tract ascribed to Jacobi originally published in French circa 1476 and in Latin circa 1478-82. This copy contains the complete text on the plague but has the 2 leaves of health precepts by another author in facsimile. Hain 9756; Klebs 245.23; Goff J13 locates only the NLM copy of this edition (and finds one location only for 11 of the other 12 editions he lists).