Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 143

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
CAESAR, GAIUS JULIUS. Co[m]mentaria. 15 woodcut illustrations, the first on title printed in black with the rest of the page in red; 18 white-on-black woodcut historiated or ornamental initials. [4], 110, [8] leaves. Folio, 304x210 mm, 19th-century gilt-panelled vellum boards with red and black morocco lettering pieces; preliminaries reinforced in gutters with other minor marginal restoration, title spotted and dampstained with repair toward top slightly affecting text on verso, dark stains on b1-3, rust hole in blank gutter of b8, early underscoring throughout, scattered marginalia, few small ink blots on q1, spotting and marginal repairs on last leaf not affecting text. (Venice: Agostino Zani, 17 August 1511)

Additional Details

first illustrated edition of Caesar's first-hand accounts of the Gallic war and Roman civil war. Essling 1727; Sander 1503.