Apr 11, 2013 - Sale 2309

Sale 2309 - Lot 27

Price Realized: $ 5,280
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
JUVENALIS, DECIMUS JUNIUS. Satyrae. With commentary by Domitius Calderinus and the latter's Defensio adversus Brotheum. [61] (of [62]) leaves; lacks final blank. Roman type. Capital spaces illuminated with 4 gold initials of 4 to 8 lines with vinework decoration in colors; 2 smaller initials in gold on red and green background; occasional rubrication. Folio, 314x215, 19th-century 1/2 brown morocco, extremities worn, front cover somewhat discolored and blistered; minor worming at beginning and end not impairing legibility, occasional marginal soiling and stains, repaired clean tear in upper margin of b1-2, extensive contemporary marginalia. (Venice: Bartholomaeus de Zanis, 3 October 1487)

Additional Details

Hain-Copinger 9699; BMC V, 430; Goff J652; ISTC ij00652000.