May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 244

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 900
John Mauropus, Metropolitan of Euchaita (fl. 11th century)
Versus Iambici.

Eton: In Collegio Regali, excudebat [M. Bradwood for] Ioannes Norton, in Gr[a]ecis, &c. regius typographus, 1610.

First edition, quarto, one of the first two books printed in Greek in Eton (both 1610); edited by Mathew Bust (1544-1613) ex libris Petrus Bonifantius, with his ownership inscription to title; woodcut printer's device to title; bound in modern half burgundy morocco with matching cloth-covered boards, neatly titled in gilt on the spine, some toning and spotting to contents, L2 final blank present in this copy, 8 3/4 x 6 1/4 in.

STC 14622; ESTC S103427 listing six U.S. copies; rare at auction.