Apr 11, 2011 - Sale 2243

Sale 2243 - Lot 164

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
GRATIANUS, the Canonist. Decretum Gratiani. Large woodcut of Gratianus on d10r; woodcut trees of consanguinity and affinity on 3P5v and 3P7r. [34] leaves, 3044, 220 columns, [3] leaves, including final blank. Folio, 342x229 mm, 18th-century mottled sheep with leather lettering piece, somewhat worn and shaken, with white ink shelf number on spine; minor worming through endpapers, title soiled and frayed with few holes in blank areas and old institutional stamp, scattered portions of the sidenotes inked out, dampstaining in upper outer corners in second half of volume. Paris: Guillaume Merlin, Guillaume Desboys, & Sébastien Nivelle, 1561