Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 223

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
MORE, THOMAS, Sir. Omnia . . . Latina Opera. [6], 136 leaves, with printers' letterpress privilege slip dated 1566 on title verso. bound with: BUCHINGER, MICHAEL. Historia ecclesiastica nova. [12], 400, [6] pages. Together, 2 volumes in one. Folio, 309x209 mm, contemporary blind-tooled sheep over wooden boards with brass bosses, worn, lacking catches and clasps, spine faded, ends damaged, covers wormed; contents browned and dampstained, few small wormholes in margins not affecting text, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp on first title, arms of an unidentified cardinal painted in colors and gold on next leaf and last page of index in second work; authors' names in ink on fore edge. Louvain: Petrus Zangrius, 1565 [i. e., 1566]; widow of Servatius Sassenus for heirs of Arnold Birckmann, 1560

Additional Details

Second collected edition in Latin of More's works after the first of 1563; issue with Zangrius imprint. Gibson 75b (noting portrait in a small number of copies, not present here); Shaaber 210.