Apr 09, 2015 - Sale 2379

Sale 2379 - Lot 167

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
VERMIGLI, PIETRO MARTIRE. Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries. Title within woodcut historiated border; woodcut arms of the dedicatee, Robert Dudley, first Earl of Leicester, on verso. [6], 288, [8] leaves, including final colophon leaf with woodcut portrait of the author. Folio, 292x194 mm, early 19th-century calf, badly worn, covers detached; preliminaries loose, dampstaining in lower outer corner of opening leaves, scattered minor stains elsewhere. 19th-century Stone Library bookplate of the Revd. R. L. Hopper. London: John Day, (28 September 1564)

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first edition in english of a Latin commentary on Judges originally published in 1561 in Zurich. STC 24670.