Oct 27, 2015 - Sale 2395

Sale 2395 - Lot 233

Price Realized: $ 975
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 1,000
PIUS II, Pope (formerly AENEAS SYLVIUS PICCOLOMINI). Asiae Europaeq[ue] elegantiss[ima] descriptio. Title within woodcut historiated architectural border incorporating vignette of Cleopatra committing suicide. [14] (of [16]), 499 pages; lacks A8 (with woodcut of mounted Turkish warrior on verso). bound with his: Historia Bohemica. [16], 200 pages. Together, 2 volumes in one. 8vo, 156x100 mm, later sheep gilt, spine wormed; toning and marginal dampstaining throughout, split between 2 gatherings in middle of volume, worming in blank outer margins toward end, stamps including that of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary on first title, accession number on next leaf, front free endpaper lacking. Rome Jesuit inscription and bookplate. [Cologne: Eucharius Cervicornius], 1531; Gottfried Hittorp, 1532