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October 18, 08:42 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 USD
Lot Details
Description
Gregorius Nazianzenus, Gregorius Nyssenus, and others. [Greek]. Gregorii Nazanzeni theologi Orationes nouem elegantissimae. Gregorii Nysseni Liber de homine, quae omnia nunc primum, emendatissima, in lucem prodeunt. Venice: Paolo Manuzio🐬 & Heirs of Andrea Torreওsano, 1536
8vo (155 x 85 mm). Greek type, 40 lines plus headline. collation: α-σ8 T8 A-Κ8: 228 leaves. Aldine device on𝄹 title and final verso, title with rules in red. (Lo🅠wer corner of title renewed, scattered foxing and toning.)
binding: English brown calf (165 x 1♔05 mm) by Roger Payne, 1795, coveꦜrs with gilt border, central gilt arms of Michael Wodhull, spine with raised bands in six gilt compartments, marbled endpapers. (Upper hinge a little weak with rubbing to joint.)
provenance: Michae☂l Wodhull (1740-1816), armorial supralibros, purchase inscription dated 13🌳 November 1795 from Payne
— John Edmund Severne (1826-1899); his sale, Sotheby's London, 11-21 January 1886, lot 1185 ("2 vol. in 1 (vol. I wants title), russia, by Roger Payne") — Robert Rosseter Hutton (d. 1887), purchased in previous sale; his sale, Sotheby's London, 4-5 July 1888, lot 19 — J. & J. Leighton, London, purchased in previous sale — Charles W. Clark (1871-1933) — The Rosenbach Company, Philadelphia. acquisition: Purchased from John Fleming, New York, 1976. references: UCLA 284; Renouard 116/5; Edit16 21741; USTC 83ꦬ4173
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