Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 172

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
OVIDIUS NASO, PUBLIUS. De arte amandi et de remedio amoris. With commentary by Bartholomaeus Merula. Woodcut white-on-black decorated initials. [56] leaves. Roman type. Folio, 302x211 mm, early 19th-century panelled russia by John Ford of Manchester, with ticket, spine ends chipped, joints cracked, cords intact, cover corners rubbed; intermittent marginal foxing, stains at bottom of c2v, contemporary marginalia and interlinear notes through much of De remedio amoris. Venice: Johannes Tacuinus, de Tridino, 5 May 1494

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The commentary by Merula first appeared in the 3 Tacuinus editions bearing this date. Hain-Copinger (+Add) 12219; BMC V, 528; ISTC io00142000.