Mar 08, 2018 - Sale 2468

Sale 2468 - Lot 153

Price Realized: $ 594
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
LUCANUS, MARCUS ANNAEUS. Pharsalia. Edited with commentary by Filippo Beroaldo the Elder. Title in red and black with Bade printing press device within woodcut historiated architectural border. [6], 261, [1] leaves, including final blank. Folio, 312x214 mm, old limp vellum with spine title in ink, lacking ties, book block loose in binding; mostly light dampstaining in lower margins, scattered early underscoring and marginalia, title creased and frayed along fore edge, with old scored inscriptions; author's name in ink on fore edge. Early marginalia and ownership inscription of Fray Thomas Cachaño. first beroaldo edition. [Paris]: Josse Bade for Jean Petit, (1514)