Apr 08, 2021 - Sale 2563

Sale 2563 - Lot 238

Price Realized: $ 6,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 8,000
Sacrobosco, Johannes de (circa 1195-1256)
Sphaera Mundi.

Venice: [Bonetus Locatellus], for Octavianus Scotus, 4 October 1490.

Quarto, a-f8, illustrated with numerous text woodcuts throughout, some printed in yellow, red, and black; full-page woodcut portraying Urania, Ptolemy, and Astronomia on a throne, woodcut printer's device printed in red on colophon leaf; old marginalia on title and in text washed almost completely away, margins trimmed a bit close, bound in full modern calf, spine tooled in gilt, housed in custom cloth-covered clamshell box, 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.

Goff J409; HC 14113*; Klebs 874.14; Bod-inc J-184; Sheppard 4183; Pr 5023; BMC V 438; BSB-Ink I-507; GW M14646; ISTC ij00409000.



Provenance: from the Stephen White Collection.