Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June-July 1908
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/248
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INCUNABULA (VENEzIA)—continued. Octavianus Scotus. 76 1483. Statius. Opera, cum commentariis P. Lactantii, et D. Calderini, vellum Jolio Hain *14976, Proctor 4578. 239 11. roman characters, with Greek passages in the commentaries. EDITIO PRINCEPS of the complete works of Statius. Slightly wormed and some pages stained. Antonius de Strata. 1485. Cicero. De fato, topica, et de universitate cum commento Georgii Vallae, half blue levant morocco neat sm. folio Hain *5343, Proctor 4587. 62 ll. roman characters, with Greek passages, and diagrams. Somewhat stained, but fine large copy. 78 1486. Juvenalis. Satyrae, cum comment. G. Vallae, vellum boards folio Hain *9703, Proctor 4591. 86 ll. (af which the first ts blank), roman characters, with interesting Greek passages. Margins of a few leaves stained and mended. ~I ~I Bernardinus Celerius. (Fourth Press.) 79 1480. Diogenes Laertius. Libro de la Vita de Philosophi et delle loro Sententiae ex antiquiss. auctoris, old calf sm. 4to Hain *6206, Proctor 4603. 71 ll. roman characters, rubricated in red and blue. First Italian edition, and good specimen of a rare press; the first leaf Ai blank is wanting. Baptista de Tortis. 80 1481. Juvenalis. Satyrae, cum comment. Domitii Calderini, vellum folio sages in Greek. One of the earliest productions of this press, having been printed in the first year of its activity. Slightly wormed and stained. 81 1481. Ovidius (Publius) Fastorum libri, cum comment. P. Marsii, ) unbound folio 3; ~ Hain 12238, Proctor 4610. 1921]. roman characters, with vi Greek in commentary. A few MS. marginal notes in a beautiful XVIth century hand. One of the earliest works from this fine press. 82 s. Ll. a. et typ. n. [1482]. Vitellius (C.) Epistola in defensionem Plinii n\/ Jet D. Calderini contra G. Merulam, ete. doeskin sm. Ato os we Not in Hain, Proctor 4618. 49 ll. roman characters, with fo yr Greek passages. Fine clean copy. ‘83 1483. Cicero. Rhetorica vetus et nova cum commentario M. Fabii Victorini, boards Solio 4 ¢ Hain *5077, Proctor 4622. 130 11. roman characters, with | blanks for Greek, except at the extreme end of the book. Good clean copy, but slightly wormed.
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