Sold for:
$861
$861
Valverde di Amusco, Juan (b. 1525) Vivae Imagines Corporis Humani Aereis Formis Expressae . Antwerp: Plantin, 1566. Folio, first Plantin edition, engraved architectural title with the figures of Adam and Eve and forty-one (of forty-two) full-page engraved illustrations, lacking the leaf E4, final blank present; bound in full contemporary calf with large gilt lozenges on each board, worn, rebacked, joint cracked, ex libris Dr. Crawford Adams, with his bookplate pasted inside the front board, some worming, spotting, water stains, nice impressions of the plates, 12 1/4 x 8 1/2 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-05-31