Oct 17, 2011 - Sale 2256

Sale 2256 - Lot 151

Price Realized: $ 1,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(NUMISMATICS.) Budé, Guillaume. De asse et partibus eius libri quinque. [12], 262 [i. e., 260], [2] leaves. 8vo, old vellum, recased, endpapers renewed; dampstaining in upper portion of contents, crude restoration in upper margin of title and next leaf affecting a few letters, horizontal wormtrail through approximately 30 leaves toward beginning and 20 leaves in middle of volume causing some text loss, colophon leaf rehinged. (Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea Asolano, September 1522)

Additional Details

only aldine edition of the first book on ancient coinage, originally published in 1514. Adams B3101; Renouard, page 94.