Apr 09, 2015 - Sale 2379

Sale 2379 - Lot 28

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
CALEPINO, AMBROGIO. Vocabularium. Thesaurus copiosissimus: ex Nicolai Perotti Cornucopie. Title within woodcut white-on-black strapwork border. 380 [i. e., 379] (of 380) leaves, with dictionary text complete; lacks the last leaf with note from the author to Egidio da Viterbo and colophon. Printed in upright italic type. 4to, 216x144 mm, early limp vellum with spine title in ink, front joint partly cracked, front cover warped, recased, endpapers renewed; margins trimmed affecting some headlines, marginal dampstaining and soiling through much of volume, early underscoring and marginalia, scattered repairs, worming in blank lower margin of opening leaves, title reinforced in margins. 19th-century bookplate and signature of Arthur P. Chadbourne. (Toscolano: Alessandro Paganini, September 1522)