Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 202

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
PLINIUS SECUNDUS, GAIUS. Historiarum naturae libri XXXVII. [18], 671, [185] pages. Ruled in red throughout. Folio, 368x238 mm, old calf, rebacked, corners restored, endpapers renewed, front joint partly cracked; first gathering possibly supplied from another copy, title dampstained with old inscriptions, traces of mold, and restoration in 2 blank portions, cropped early marginalia, contents otherwise relatively clean. Paris: (Antoine Augereau for Jean Petit and) Galliot Du Pré, (October) 1532

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Early production by Augereau, whose career as a printer lasted only from 1532 to 1534, when he was publicly burned for heresy.