Apr 11, 2013 - Sale 2309

Sale 2309 - Lot 9

Price Realized: $ 9,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
BARTHOLOMAEUS DE CHAIMIS. Confessionale sive Interrogatorium [with Interrogationes faciende infirmo morienti]. [174] leaves. Gothic type. Rubricated. 4to, 154x113 mm, later 18th-century russia gilt with Wodhull arms on front cover, rebacked retaining original backstrip; minor marginal foxing, scattered contemporary marginalia, dampstain in upper inner corners at end. Contemporary presentation inscription on recto of last leaf to 'N. Maurozeno [i. e., Morosini] patritio Veneto,' and contemporary monastic ownership inscription on verso; vellum leaf with partial index in contemporary hand bound at end. (Milan: Christophorus Valdarfer, 29 September 1474)

Additional Details

first edition of a practical guide for confessors, the second book from Valdarfer's second press. Hain 2481; GW 6540; BMC VI, 725; Goff B153; ISTC ib00153000. From the library of the bibliographer William Herbert (1718-95); purchased at the latter's sale on 10 March 1796 by Michael Wodhull, bound for him, with his notes and signature; John Edmund Severne, by descent (sale at Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 13 January 1886, lot 651); George Dunn, with his bookplate and notes dated 1895 (sale at the same house, 3 February 1914, lot 938); and Herbert S. Squance of Sunderland, bookplate (sale at the same house, 6 February 1924, lot 366).