Apr 11, 2013 - Sale 2309

Sale 2309 - Lot 45

Price Realized: $ 7,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
VERGILIUS MARO, PUBLIUS. Opera. With commentary by Servius, Aelius Donatus, Domitius Calderinus, and Christophorus Landinus, and continuation of the Aeneid by Maphaeus Vegius. [8], 345, [1] leaves, including initial and final blanks, with l5.6 bound in middle of gathering m. Roman type with some use of Greek. Folio, 302x201 mm, contemporary 1/4 blind-tooled pigskin, wooden boards with brass catches and clasps; marginal dampstaining and minor worming at beginning and end not impairing legibility, scattered early marginalia, blank upper outer corner off s2, repaired clean tear in outer margin of L3. Ownership inscription of the Monastery of St. Joseph, Innsbruck, dated 1636. (Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1492)

Additional Details

Copinger 6070; BMC II, 436; Goff V188; ISTC iv00188000.