Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 261

Price Realized: $ 17,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 900
Velleius Paterculus's Animadversionibus.
[Together with] three leaves from Aristotle's Libri Ethicorum printed in Oxford, 1479.

Leiden: Plantin, 1591.



Octavo volume with folios p2, p3, & p7 from the third book printed by the first Oxford printer, known as the printer of Rufinus, identified by some scholars by Theodore Rood, used as flyleaves in a full contemporary Oxford dark brown calf binding, unsophisticated and without repair, cloth ties removed, 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.

STC 752; ESTC S118783.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.