Live auction - Lot 736
[Italy - Venice]
Sermones ad heremitas.
Venice, P. de Paganinis, 26 May 1487
€ 1.500 / 2.500
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Lot description
8vo: [134] ff., 32 ll. (margins dampstained and soiled, some thumbing).
Cont. Italian blind-decorated leather over wood, spine on 2 raised bands, metal catch, top edge titled (worn and repaired, loosening at front, front cover cut into, clasp gone). Good, complete copy.
Early incunable ed. (1st Modena 1477) of a popular collection of sermons longtime ascribed to St Augustine. Printed in gothic type, in 2 cols. Rubricated in red and yellow. Ref. ISTC ia01315000. - GW 3003. - Goff A-1315. - Polain 4080 (this copy). - BMC V:454. - BSB-Ink A-920. - Not in CIBN. Prov. Cont. annotations on endpapers and blank pp. - [Georges Petit].
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