Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 5

Price Realized: $ 520
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
ANTONINUS FLORENTINUS, Saint. Prima [Secunda] pars totius summe maioris beati Antonini. Volumes 1-2 (of 5) in one, each with title woodcut of the author preaching. [1], 254, [1]; 325 [i. e., 321], [1] leaves, including final blank in second volume. 4to, 209x152 mm, contemporary blind-tooled leather over pasteboard, rebacked, joints worn and partly cracked; marginal dampstaining, soiling, and foxing through most of both volumes, scattered early marginalia, early monastic ownership inscription on first title, dog-earing in lower outer corners at end of second volume. Bookplate and stamped inventory number of Jean Patrice Auguste Madden (1808-1889). (Venice: Lazzaro Soardi, 1 September 1503; 15 July 1053 [i. e., 1503])

Additional Details

Bound in Volume 1 are 2 unnumbered leaves ("Frater Albertus Porletiensis . . . Ad lectorem" etc.) and the 4-leaf register for the entire set, which belong in the final volume.