Important Manuscripts, Continental Books and Music

Important Manuscripts, Continental Books and Music

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Macrobius, In somnium Scipionis, Venice, 1501, modern tooled calf in plateresque style

Auction Closed

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