Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 124

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
LUCANUS, MARCUS ANNAEUS. Pharsalia. With commentary of Omnibonus Leonicenus. [186] leaves. Roman type. Later calligraphic manuscript divisional initials. Folio, 292x211 mm, contemporary blind-tooled calf with early owner's primitive hand-drawn vellum bookplate(?) on front cover and portions of vellum liturgical manuscript leaves as pastedowns, binding worn and wormed, lacking catches and clasps, free endpapers renewed; few small wormholes through much of volume generally not impairing legibility, scattered dark stains, early underscoring and marginalia, small rust hole through i7-8 affecting a few words, author's name in ink on bottom edges. (Venice: Nicolaus Battibovis, 13 May 1486)

Additional Details

HC 10238; BMC V, 405; Sander 5310; ISTC il00302000.