Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 249

Price Realized: $ 228
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
[SELBY or READE, RICHARD WILFRID.] Bonifacius VIII. e familia Caietanorum principum Romanus pontifex. R.P. Ioannis Rubei [pseud.] Congregationis Angliae, Ordinis S. Benedicti monachi . . . opus in duas partes divisum. Folding engraved plate of the tomb of Boniface VIII. [4], lii, 383 [i. e., 390], [2] pages, including engraved architectural additional title. 4to, 229x160 mm, contemporary red morocco gilt-tooled to panel design with concave center- and cornerpieces on covers, rebacked retaining original backstrip, front joint worn, few stains on rear cover; contents clean apart from scattered pencil underscoring and two stains in blank outer margin of approximately the last 20 leaves. Rome: Corbelletti heirs, 1651

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first edition of a biography and defense of Pope Boniface VIII (d. 1303) by an English Benedictine agent at the papal court, also known as John Wilfrid, or Wilfrid Selby (d. 1657). Gillow, A Literary and Biographical History . . . of the English Catholics V, 490. The author William Beckford's copy, sold as lot 1534 in the third Hamilton Palace Library sale at Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge on 9 July 1883.