Oct 16, 2018 - Sale 2488

Sale 2488 - Lot 33

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI. De claris mulieribus. Printer's woodcut device on title and last page; 15 woodcut text illustrations by Jakob Kallenberg. [6], 81, [1] leaves. Folio, 282x192 mm, 18th-century vellum boards, spine gilt with red morocco lettering piece; occasional heavy browning and marginal foxing, light dampstain in blank lower margin of opening leaves, ink stains in upper outer corner of leaf 47. Bookplate of Mary S. Collins. Bern: Matthias Apiarius, 1539

Additional Details

Fairfax Murray/German 78. For 15th-century editions see lots 82 and 83.