Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 241

Price Realized: $ 2,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
VIGERIO, MARCO. Decachordu[m] Christianu[m] . . . Controversiaq[ue] De instrume[n]tis dominice Passionis ab eode[m] discussa. Badius woodcut printing press device on general and divisional titles; 10 woodcut illustrations; woodcut criblé initials of various sizes throughout. [8], 352, [28]; 30, [2] leaves. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo, 162x102 mm, old limp vellum with remnants of thong ties, recased, endpapers renewed; occasional marginal dampstaining, mainly toward end, minor soiling, scattered early underscoring and marginalia, small wormholes through opening leaves partly repaired with slight text loss, horizontal crease across blank upper margin of general title, blank lower outer corner off Y1. (Paris): in aedibus Ascensianis, (1517)

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Third editions. The first title is a devotional work originally printed by Gershom Soncino at Fano in 1507; the second is a tract on the Instruments of the Passion first published in Rome in 1512. Renouard (Badius) II, 371.