Nov 09, 2010 - Sale 2229

Sale 2229 - Lot 79

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
JOACHIM, Abbot of Fiore. Vaticinia, sive prophetiae . . . Vaticinii, overo Profetie. 34 large engraved illustrations. [72] leaves, including engraved title and 2 blanks at end. Small 4to, contemporary limp vellum, worn, missing ties and piece from backstrip; some marginal foxing, soiling, and minor stains, some illustrations captioned in Latin in ink and in English in pencil. Venice: Girolamo Porro, 1589

Additional Details

Collection of cryptic predictions concerning the Papacy ascribed to the 12th-century Italian mystical theologian. Sarton II, 332-34. See also lot 115.