Live auction - Lot 1065
[Germany - Cologne]
Georgicor[um] [...] cu[m] novo commentario Hermanni Torrentini.
(Cologne, H. Quentel), [1499]
€ 500 / 600
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Lot description
4to: LXXXI-[3] ff., 43 ll. (marginal dampstains, rare stains, one - sometimes two - wormhole(s) in the text throughout, small foxing especially to the end).
19th-c. binding: boards, flat spine (sm. def., dampstained, corners and bottom edge bumped, fore-edge titled).
Second edition with the commentary by the Dutch grammarian Torrentinus (c. 1450-c. 1520). The first edition was published in 1496 in Deventer by Pafraet. Illustrated with a woodcut at reverse of last leaf figuring the Arrival of the Magi. Ref. ISTC iv00230000.- Goff V-230.- GW M50104.- IDL 4611.- Bod-inc V-116.- Not in Polain, BMC, Bsb-Ink, CIBN.