Apr 11, 2013 - Sale 2309
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Sale 2309 - Lot 29

Price Realized: $ 3,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
LACTANTIUS, LUCIUS CAECILIUS FIRMIANUS. Opera. [148] leaves, including initial blank. Roman and Greek types. Folio, 285x202 mm, 18th-century 1/2 calf, spine ends chipped, cover corners worn through, dampstain in upper inner corner of front cover; some headlines shaved, light marginal dampstaining at beginning and end, front free endpaper lacking. Ownership inscription of Heinrich Bockholt (1463-1535), Bishop of Lübeck, with cropped early marginalia throughout and 4-leaf manuscript index in same(?) hand bound after a8. Armorial bookplate of George Dawson Coleman. (Venice: Theodore de Ragazonibus, 21 April 1390 [i. e,. 1490])
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Additional Details

Tenth edition; the first was printed in 1465. Hain-Copinger 9815; BMC V, 477; Goff L10; il00010000.