4 Dec 2012
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The Dictionary Collection of Thomas Malin Rodgers
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The Dictionary Collection of Thomas Malin Rodgers
Back to auction 20475
CALEPINO, AMBROGIO. 1435-1511.
Dictionarium latinarum et graecarum interpres perspicacissimus.... Venice: Bernardinus Benalius, March 10, 1520.
Folio (320 x 221 mm). a-z10 &10 >10 Rx10 A-N10 (-N10 ?blank). Double column, gothic type. Title and incipit leaf printed in red and black, title in four-part woodcut border, decorative initials, portrait initial on dedication, printer's device at colophon. Period blind-stamped calf. Lacking N10, a1 re-hinged and with lower margin restored, N9 reinforced at lower margin, some minor dampstain and worming (mostly marginal), scattered other soiling, recased and rubbed, later endpapers.
Provenance: anonymous owner, Swann Galleries, Dec 12, 1996, lot 107.
Not in Adams.
Folio (320 x 221 mm). a-z10 &10 >10 Rx10 A-N10 (-N10 ?blank). Double column, gothic type. Title and incipit leaf printed in red and black, title in four-part woodcut border, decorative initials, portrait initial on dedication, printer's device at colophon. Period blind-stamped calf. Lacking N10, a1 re-hinged and with lower margin restored, N9 reinforced at lower margin, some minor dampstain and worming (mostly marginal), scattered other soiling, recased and rubbed, later endpapers.
Provenance: anonymous owner, Swann Galleries, Dec 12, 1996, lot 107.
Not in Adams.
Sold for
US$ 1,375
inc. premium
Category: Books / Books, Maps and Manuscripts
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