Oct 16, 2018 - Sale 2488

Sale 2488 - Lot 79

Price Realized: $ 2,210
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
BERNARDUS CLARAVELLENSIS, Saint. Opuscula. Edited by Theophilus Brixianus, with the latter's Carmen de vita S. Bernardi. [346] leaves. Gothic type. Partly rubricated. 8vo, 157x107 mm, contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards with strapwork roll border around 3-part panel of knotwork tooling on covers, brass catches, lacking clasps, spine ends damaged; dampstaining and worming in blank margins at beginning and end, scattered minor foxing and soiling, blank lower outer corner off R7. 16th-century inscriptions of Michael Sydelius of Olmütz, Martinus Glekelius(?) of Neisse, and Michael Walther, Abbot of the Cistercian Monastery of Rauden, Upper Silesia; and early 17th-century Rauden inscriptions. (Venice: Simon Bevilacqua, 17 October 1495)

Additional Details

Fourth edition; the first was printed circa 1478. HC 2922; GW 3908; BMC V, 520; ISTC ib00365000.