Feb 28, 2013 - Sale 2305

Sale 2305 - Lot 95

Price Realized: $ 4,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
AUGUSTINUS, AURELIUS, Saint. Opuscula. [274] leaves. Gothic type. Rubricated. Folio, 290x204 mm, contemporary calf over wooden boards with brass catches and clasps, conspicuously rebacked, front endpapers renewed; small wormholes through front and rear of contents not impairing legibility, scattered minor dampstains and early marginalia, a1.6 washed and rehinged, repaired clean tear in N5. Early ownership inscription of the Benedictine Abbey of SS. Ulrich and Afra, Augsburg; bookplate of Eugene Musial. (Strassburg: Martin Flach, 20 March 1489)

Additional Details

Fourth edition of a collection of shorter writings by St. Augustine, originally published circa 1485. GW 2685; BMC I, 149; Goff A1218; ISTC ia01218000.