Live auction - Lot 1078

[Humanist letters - Cambrai binding]

LONGOLIUS, Christophorus

Epistolarum libri IIII. Bartolomaei item Riccij de imitatione libri tres, a Io. Michaele Bruto emendati.

Lyon, Heirs of S. Gryphius, 1563


Hammer price: € 550

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16mo: 673-[4] pp. (some minor soiling, esp. at end, worming in blank top corners of quires L-N).

Contemp. calf, large gilt coat of arms on covers, spine with raised bands (rubbed at edges, joints split, head and tail def.). Good copy.

Extensive collection of letters by and to the Mechelen-born humanist Longolius (1490-1522), including Erasmus, Flaminius, Bembo. With an additional treatise on literary imitation. Woodcut mark on title. Printed in italics.
Ref. SvGültlingen (Gryphius) 1476 = Baudrier VIII:307. - Adams L-1439.
Prov. Oval large gilt arms with a crowned bicephalous eagle and the inscription "Les Estats de Cambray et du Cambresis" (supralibros).

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Lot 1078

Epistolarum libri IIII. Bartolomaei item Riccij de imitatione libri tres, a Io. Michaele Bruto emendati.

LONGOLIUS, Christophorus

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