Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 269

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
VALERIUS MAXIMUS, GAIUS. [Facta et dicta memorabilia.] Commentary by Oliverius Arzignanensis and Jodocus Badius. Woodcut initials of various sizes with later hand-coloring throughout. [6] (of [8]), 340 leaves; lacks the title. Folio, 303x208 mm, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards with brass catches and one clasp (of 2), worn; occasional toning and light marginal foxing, early owner's interlinear notes through approximately the first quarter of the text, worming in blank margins of last few leaves. Bookplate of Leopold Gruber (1733-1807) on blank verso of last leaf. [Paris]: Jodocus Badius & Jean Petit, (1513)