Live auction - Lot 1066
[Alexander the Great]
De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum opus […], congesta per Christophorum Brunonem […].
Basel, Froben Press (H. Froben & N. Episcopius), March 1545
Hammer price: €
650
€ 800 / 1.000
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Lot description
Folio: [8]-171-[13] pp. (toned, occ. spotting or staining).
Old vellum, large blind-st. arms on covers, flat spine with morocco label, red sp. edges. Good copy.
Uncommon ed. of the classical Latin biography of Alexander the Great, edited by the lesser-known German humanist Bruno (fl. 1542-1566). Full-page woodcuts on verso of title (dedicatee Albert of Bavaria) and on *4r (Chr. Bruno). Woodcut mark at the end. Annotated throughout in a humanist hand.
Ref. VD16 C-6466. - Adams C-3123.
Prov. Unidentified supralibros. - Dukes of Sachsen-Anhalt (large armorial bookpl. and sm. library ticket).