Sold for:
$4,920
$4,920
Valturio, Roberto (1405-1475) Les Douze Livres de Robert Valturin . Paris: Perier, 1555. First French edition, folio, collated, complete, large woodcut printer's mark on title, illustrated with ninety-seven fine woodcut illustrations, many full-page, portion of the bottom corner of the title torn away with loss, repaired, with good pen facsimile making up the excised portion of the imprint, smaller paper repairs in the corresponding blank margins of the following two leaves; bound in full 17th century French speckled calfskin, spine tooled in gilt, edges red, marbled endleaves, spine dry.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-11-18