.jpg?w=1)
Details
VALLA, Laurentius (1406-1457). Elegantiae linguae latinae. -De pronomine sui. - Antonius MANCINELLUS. Lima quaedam Laurentii Vallensis. Venice: Christophorus de Pensis, de Mandello, 15 June 1496.
Super-chancery 2°. Collation: A6 a-o6 (A1r title, A1v blank, A2r index, a1r texts, o6r register, colophon, o6v blank). 90 leaves. 58-60 lines and headline. Type: 6:160Gb, 7:109R, 3:82R, occasional Greek. 3- to 8-line initial spaces with guide-letters. Woodcut initials from several sets. (Some staining and spotting.) HC *15820; BMC V, 470 (IB. 23485); IGI 10096; Goff V-66.
[Bound with:]
SABELLICUS, Marcus Antonius Coccius (1436-1506). Annotationes veteres et recentes ex Plinio, Livio & pluribus authoribus. - Philippus BEROALDUS. Annotationes Centum, and other works. [Venice]: Jacobus Pentius de Leucho, 16 December 1502. Collation: a-c6 A8 B-M6 N4 O6 P4. Roman and Greek types. 59 lines and headline. One woodcut black-on-white initial opening Beroaldus text, initial spaces with guide-letter. (Occasional light staining or spotting.) BLSTC Italian, p.188.
[Bound with:]
JACOBUS À CRUCE (d. c.1526). Centum et sexaginta annotationes in varios auctores. Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 23 June 1503. 2°. Collation: A-C6 D4 E6 F4. 42 lines. Printer's device at end. Roman and Greek types. (One word on A1 partly erased, some light spotting.) FIRST EDITION of this collection of commentaries by Giacomo dalla Croce on classical authors such as Horace, Lucan, Vergil, Martial, Juvenal, and also Boethius. RARE, not in the British Library or Adams, and no copy has been sold at auction in over 25 years. EDIT on-line, CNC 15857 (recording 9 copies only).
3 works in one volume, 2° (303 x 210mm). 16th-century Italian flexible vellum blocked in gilt with arabesque center- and cornerpieces, fleurons at corners, flat spine tooled in compartments, lettered in MS, old paper labels, red edges (gilt oxidised, a little staining, without two fore-edge ties). Provenance: Baron Joannes Wilhelmus of Schönkirchen (inscription dated 1583 on first title) -- Vienna, Barnabite College of St. Michael (inscription on second leaf) -- occasional annotations in several early hands.
Super-chancery 2°. Collation: A
[Bound with:]
SABELLICUS, Marcus Antonius Coccius (1436-1506). Annotationes veteres et recentes ex Plinio, Livio & pluribus authoribus. - Philippus BEROALDUS. Annotationes Centum, and other works. [Venice]: Jacobus Pentius de Leucho, 16 December 1502. Collation: a-c
[Bound with:]
JACOBUS À CRUCE (d. c.1526). Centum et sexaginta annotationes in varios auctores. Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 23 June 1503. 2°. Collation: A-C
3 works in one volume, 2° (303 x 210mm). 16th-century Italian flexible vellum blocked in gilt with arabesque center- and cornerpieces, fleurons at corners, flat spine tooled in compartments, lettered in MS, old paper labels, red edges (gilt oxidised, a little staining, without two fore-edge ties). Provenance: Baron Joannes Wilhelmus of Schönkirchen (inscription dated 1583 on first title) -- Vienna, Barnabite College of St. Michael (inscription on second leaf) -- occasional annotations in several early hands.
Special notice
No VAT on hammer price or buyer's premium