Nov 09, 2010 - Sale 2229

Sale 2229 - Lot 43

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
Libri officialis sive agendae S. Ecclesiae Treverensis pars prior. Latin and German text, printed in red and black. Large woodcut arms of Jakob von Eltz, Archbishop of Trier, on title verso. [28], 246 pages, including folding leaf with tables of consanguinity, affinity, and spiritual relationship on recto and verso. Small folio, contemporary leather over wooden boards with indistinct blind-stamped arms on covers, brass catches, lacking clasps, worn overall, spine imperfect; marginal dampstaining through most of volume with scattered traces of mold, clean tear in folding leaf of tables. 19th-century Trier Redemptorist stamps and bookplate (duplicate). Trier: Johann Rotaeus, 1574

Additional Details

First edition of the Rituale for the Archdiocese of Trier, first part only; the second part was published in 1576. VD16 A766.