Auction Closed
October 12, 08:25 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Catullus. Tibullus. Propertius. Catullus. Tibullus. Propetius [sic]. [Lyon : Baldazare de Gabiano? 1502-1503?]
A second copy.
8vo (159 x 98 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-E8 F4 [Catullus]; A-D8 E4 [Tibullus]; G-P8 [Propertius]: 152 leaves, unfoliated, F2v-4v🃏 and P7 blank. (Closed tear and crease to title, scattered foxing, repairs to inner margin of final𒐪 two gatherings.)
binding: Nineteenth-century pink paper boards (166ꦓ x 109 mm), red⛄ leather gilt-lettered spine, tips; edges plain.
provenance: Paolo Camerini (Biblioteca Cameriniana label to front free endpaper with added shelfmark) — Georges Heilbrun, Paris, his Catalogue 45: Le premier caractère italique en France, [1976], item 10, FF 5000. acquisition: Purchased from Jean Viardot, Paris, 1980.