Live auction - Lot 1229
[Law - Postincunable]
Practica singularis ac perutilis [...] [ed. Johannes Clinzalius & Francesco Corti].
Lyon, [Cl. Davost & E. Gueynard], 28 July 1502
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
4to: [12]-CCXXXIIII [= 234] ff. (occasional minor staining or marginal worming).
Old vellum, flat spine titled in ink, red edges (sl. loosening, front bottom corner rubbed). Good copy.
Very rare Lyon ed. of a widely used legal textbook by the Italian lawyer Ferrari (1357-1421), 1st publ. 1472. Title, with large historiated initial, printed in red. Text in Gothic type, in 2 col. Contemp. marginal annotations throughout (some cropped).
Ref. Baudrier XI:195-196. - Pettegree (FB) 70415. - Not in Adams, STC French (BL).