Lot 2
  • 2

Augustinus, Aurelius, Saint.

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • De civitate Dei cum commento [of Thomas Waleys and Nicolaus Trivet]. Basel: Johann Amerbach, 13 February 1490, 268 leaves, double column, 54 lines of text, 64 lines of commentary plus headline, Gothic letter, large woodcut on verso of title-page, O4 torn without loss
Ibid. De Trinitate. Basel: Johann Amerbach, 1490, 86 leaves, double column, 64 lines plus headline, Gothic letter



2 works in one volume, Median folio (325 x 218mm.), 2- to 9-line initials supplied in blue or red, red and blue paragraph marks, modern calf-backed original wooden boards, manuscript fragments in spine, late thirteenth-century French manuscript bifolium on vellum used as lower boardliner, slight worming at beginning and end

Provenance

"Bibliothecae D. Sertoris", inscription on title-page; Robert Lenkiewicz (1941-2002), artist

Literature

HC 2066 & 2039; GW 2888 & 2928; BMC iii 752-753; Goff A1244 & A1345