Important Manuscripts, Continental Books and Music
Important Manuscripts, Continental Books and Music
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December 3, 04:27 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
Lot Details
Description
MACROBIUS, AMBROSIUS AURELIUS THEODOSIUS
[In somnium Scipionis] De somno Scipionis nec non de Saturnalibus libri. (Brescia: Angelo Britannico, 18 January 1501)
folio (306 x 202mm.), text in Latin and Greek, initial spaces, woodcut diagrams and map, a few neat early annotations, modern tooled calf in plateresque style, slipcase, a few very small marginal wormholes
LITERATURE:
Edit16 23222; Sander 4076; Shirley 13
PROVENANCE:
Daniel Torrittanus and his son Aurelius, inscription on title-page; Colección Alfageme Fontanals, name stamped on spine