Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 131

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
THOMAS AQUINAS, Saint. Super secundo libro Sententiarum Petri Lombardi. [182] leaves. Gothic type. Rubrication on approximately the first 20 leaves. Folio, 305x215 mm, contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards with chain attachment at top of rear cover and brass catches, lacking center- and cornerpieces and clasps, top of spine damaged, top portion of pigskin removed from rear cover; marginal dampstaining and worming not impairing legibility at beginning and end, marginal repairs on d1 and last leaf not affecting text, scattered early marginalia, contents otherwise generally clean. Old embossed stamp on title ("Bibl. Sem. Pret. Sanguinis") on title, early Regensburg Dominican ownership inscription on next leaf; 19th-century booklabel of the bookseller Benziger Bros. on front pastedown. (Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 27 May 1494)

Additional Details

Second edition after the first of 1481. HC 1477; BMC VI, 841; ISTC it00164000.