May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 138

Price Realized: $ 270
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
JUSTINIAN I, Emperor. Institutionum . . . libri IIII [etc.]. Folding table of consanguinity (missing small piece from lower inner corner). 166, [2], 132, [260] pages. 8vo, contemporary limp vellum; opening leaves dampstained. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1567

Additional Details

Last volume only of the 10-volume Plantin edition of the Corpus juris civilis. Inscribed by the mathematics professor and bibliographer Louis C. Karpinski to the classicist Francis W. Kelsey.