Oct 16, 2018 - Sale 2488

Sale 2488 - Lot 140

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
(MIRABILIA ROMAE.) In dem buechlein steet geschriben / rvie Rom geparvt rvart [etc.]. 10 woodcut illustrations, all but one full-page. [56] (of [60]) leaves; lacks initial blank A1, H1, and H3-4. 8vo, 128x99 mm, later limp vellum with spine title in ink and remnants of thong ties, few stains on front cover; scattered foxing and mostly minor stains, F4 heavily browned with small repairs in blank upper and lower margins. (Rome: Johann Besicken, 26 August 1506)

Additional Details

Scarce edition of a popular guidebook to Rome, regularly reprinted from the 1470s into the 16th century. Sander 4598 (locating only the Biblioteca Colombina copy). this edition not in schudt, edit16, sbn, vd16, or oclc.