Apr 12, 2012 - Sale 2275

Sale 2275 - Lot 55

Price Realized: $ 3,120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
JOHANNES CARTHUSIENSIS. Nosce te [and other texts]. Part 2 (of 5) only: Corona senum. [24] leaves, including initial blank. Roman type. 4to, 198x144 mm, modern vellum; light marginal foxing. (Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 3 July 1480)

Additional Details

first edition, forming part of a collection of devotional tracts that was the first printed work to receive ecclesiastical approbation. BMC V, 181; Goff J274; ISTC ij00274000. The bibliographer and bookseller John Carter's copy, with bibliographical note and signature dated 1928, and gift inscription dated 1967.