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CAMPANUS (JOHANNES ANTONIUS)
Opera, FIRST EDITION, Rome, Eucharius Silber for Michele Ferno, 31 October 1495

27 November 2018, 13:00 GMT
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CAMPANUS (JOHANNES ANTONIUS)

Opera, FIRST EDITION, edited by Michele Ferno, 304 leaves, 56 lines plus headline, roman letter, large woodcut of a bell with inscriptions on title-page, large woodcut device within border on F4 verso, illuminated initial and three-quarter illuminated border on a2 recto consisting of a red and blue bar with floral extensions, a coat-of-arms surmounted by a bishop's mitre inside a wreath in the lower margin, occasional light spotting, 3 leaves misbound, fore-edge of title-page repaired, tears in title-page and 3 other leaves partly repaired without loss, unobtrusive worm holes at gutter of final few leaves, nineteenth-century calf, rebacked preserving original spine, rubbed, gilt monogram on upper cover [ISTC ic00073000; BMC IV, p.117; GW 5939; Goff C73; HC 4286 = HC(Add) 4287], folio (301 x 200mm.), Rome, Eucharius Silber for Michele Ferno, 31 October 1495

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THE SPENCER COPY, described by Dibdin as "one of the most provokingly capricious volumes, in respect to signatures, ever opened. A sound copy: in elegant calf binding" (Aedes Althorpianae II, p.99).

Provenance: Mancini family, arms in border of a2; George John, Earl Spencer (1758-1834), later morocco booklabel; purchased en bloc by Mrs Rylands in 1892; John Rylands University of Manchester Library, monogram on upper cover and withdrawn label; Sotheby's, 14 April 1988, lot 18 (£8,250, to Stratton).

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