Apr 24, 2006 - Sale 2076

Sale 2076 - Lot 274

Price Realized: $ 920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
PLINIUS SECUNDUS, GAIUS. Historiae mundi libri XXXVII. [36], 663, [65], [156] pages, including blank 3e6 and last leaf with printer's device. Folio, 376x245 mm, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over pasteboard with concentric historiated and ornamental rolls on covers, worn, lower outer corner of rear cover cracked; title soiled, scattered minor stains and marginalia, lacks front free endpaper. Signatures of Jobus Zevelius, dated Speier 1627, and Johann Heinrich Seufert of Speier; stamp of the German pharmacologist Louis Lewin (1850-1929). Adams P1573. wide-margined copy. Basel: (Hieronymus Froben & Nicolaus Episcopius), 1554 [colophon dated 1555]