Live auction - Lot 830
[Italy - Venice]
Sermones quadragesimales de peccatis [...].
CARACCIOLUS, Robertus, O.F.M.
€ 1.000 / 1.500
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Lot description
Venice, A. Torresano de Asula, 27 September 1488
4to: 191 ff., 49 ll. (lacking initial and final blank; cut short at top shaving pr. foliation, some worming in blank margins, wormtrack in ff. 2-3 touching some letters, some staining in 1st ff.).
18th-c. vellum, flat spine with gilt label, red edges. Good copy.
Early ed. of a number of sermons by the famous Italian Franciscan preacher Caracciolo (1425-1495). Title printed in red. Text in gothic type, in 2 cols. Capital spaces with guide-letters. Ref. ISTC ic00160000. - GW 6080. - Goff C-160. - Polain 988. - BMC V:309. - BSB-Ink C-123. - Not in CIBN. Prov. A few old marg. annotations (cropped). - [Georges Petit].