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MAUROCENUS, Paulus. De aeterna temporalique Christi generatione. Padua: Bartholomaeus de Valdezoccho and Martinus de Septem Arboribus, 28th April 1473.
4o (195 x 132 mm). Collation: [110 2-88 9-106]. 78 leaves. 24 lines (inmost opening of the final quire with only 17 and 16 lines). 2:115(112). Two initials O and S (1/1r, 1/3r) supplied in red. (Single wormhole on 1/1-3/1 occasionally catching letters, small internal hole on 1/1-2 touching a few letters, some occasional pale spotting and dampstaining, mostly marginal.) 18th-century Italian half vellum, yellow boards (some wear at extremities). Provenance: Joan[nes] Grieg of Cordu (signature on 1/1) -- Lord Vernon (1803-1866, bookplate; sold Sotheby's London, 16 July 1928, lot 110) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Maggs Bros., London, 31 August 1944) -- donated to SMS 1944.
FIRST EDITION, variant in quarto, with the name of the printers on the colophon and 10/3.4 with 17 and 16 lines to a page (as in BMC IA.29817, Hain and Polain (B) 2645). Another variant is found in octavo, with a colophon naming Bartholomaeus Campanus Ponticuruanus, who was actually a press-reader and is often confused for Valdezoccho himself. A third variant is found also in quarto, with the colophon as here but with 10/3.4 reset. RARE: the last copy to appear at auction was the Eric Sexton copy (Christie's New York, 8 April 1981, lot 116). BMC VII, 905 (IA.29817); CIBN M-244 (variant); HC 10924; Harvard/Walsh 2796 (variant); Pr 6761; Goff M-380 (naming Bartholomaeus Campanus Ponticuruanus printer).
4o (195 x 132 mm). Collation: [110 2-88 9-106]. 78 leaves. 24 lines (inmost opening of the final quire with only 17 and 16 lines). 2:115(112). Two initials O and S (1/1r, 1/3r) supplied in red. (Single wormhole on 1/1-3/1 occasionally catching letters, small internal hole on 1/1-2 touching a few letters, some occasional pale spotting and dampstaining, mostly marginal.) 18th-century Italian half vellum, yellow boards (some wear at extremities). Provenance: Joan[nes] Grieg of Cordu (signature on 1/1) -- Lord Vernon (1803-1866, bookplate; sold Sotheby's London, 16 July 1928, lot 110) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Maggs Bros., London, 31 August 1944) -- donated to SMS 1944.
FIRST EDITION, variant in quarto, with the name of the printers on the colophon and 10/3.4 with 17 and 16 lines to a page (as in BMC IA.29817, Hain and Polain (B) 2645). Another variant is found in octavo, with a colophon naming Bartholomaeus Campanus Ponticuruanus, who was actually a press-reader and is often confused for Valdezoccho himself. A third variant is found also in quarto, with the colophon as here but with 10/3.4 reset. RARE: the last copy to appear at auction was the Eric Sexton copy (Christie's New York, 8 April 1981, lot 116). BMC VII, 905 (IA.29817); CIBN M-244 (variant); HC 10924; Harvard/Walsh 2796 (variant); Pr 6761; Goff M-380 (naming Bartholomaeus Campanus Ponticuruanus printer).