Sold for:
$1,476

Maffei, Raffaelo (1451-1522) De Institutione Christiana ad Leone M. X. Pont. Max. Libri Octo. Rome: Mazochium, 1518. First edition, folio, title page printed within composite woodcut compartment, text printed in a single column throughout, in roman type; both pastedowns are manuscript waste, in the front, a leaf from a text manuscript on paper; in back a parchment leaf in a humanistic hand; bound in full contemporary blind-tooled sheep, worn, with abrasions, worming, and other damage at head and tail, but intact, functioning and unsophisticated; some text leaves quite browned, closed vertical tear down the center of leaf M3; 11 1/2 x 8 in.


Skinner

Auctioneer:
Skinner

Date:
2015-11-15