May 11, 2010 - Sale 2214

Sale 2214 - Lot 115

Price Realized: $ 900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
DU MONTVERD, RAOUL. Se[n]suit les fleurs & secretz de medicine [and other texts]. Title in red and black within 4-part woodcut border; woodcut text illustrations of zodiac signs. [8], 1-72, 81-92 leaves; lacks L[superscript]8. Bâtarde type. Small 8vo, contemporary blind-tooled calf, top spine compartment off, joints cracked, cords intact; ink blot on D3-4 oxidized with resulting small hole slightly affecting text. (Paris): [Alain Lotrian], circa 1531

Additional Details

Second(?) edition of a collection of remedies with astrological and astronomical addenda; the first appeared circa 1520 in Troyes. Ferguson, Bibliographical Notes I/5, 25-27; Renouard-Moreau IV, 137.