Sold for:
$9,760
$9,760
Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, February 23/24, 1494. 162 leaves, 62 lines. Folio, full seventeenth-century vellum, manuscript title to spine. Third combined edition of Boccaccio's genealogy of the Roman Gods, in fifteen books, bound with describing the landforms and bodies of water mentioned in mythological texts. Illustrated with woodcut printer's device to end, numerous woodcut initials and 13 full-page woodcut genealogical trees. Dampstain to pp. 137-144; scattered light brownspotting and some marginal markings; some minor wear and soiling to boards; otherwise fine.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2011-04-05