SPIERA, AMBROSIUS DE. Quadragesimale de floribus sapientiae. [353] (of [512]) leaves; lacks the first 152 leaves, 2[et]1, and the last 6 leaves. Gothic type. Rubricated. Folio, 293x209 mm, later vellum boards, rebacked with cloth retaining most of original backstrip, front hinge cracked, split between last 2 leaves; occasional minor marginal soiling and spotting, reproduction of border from a Venetian incunabulum mounted inside front cover. Inscription of Richard Levett of All Souls College, Oxford, dated 1729; armorial bookplate of Heneage Legge, Esq.; inscription of Sir Thomas Harvie Farquhar Bart. to the Reverend Walter Stevenson Halliday dated 1827; calling card of Gerard R. Owst mounted on front endleaf above his pencil purchase note dated 1923. (Venice: Vindelinus de Spira, 18 December 1476)