Live auction - Lot 986
[Antiquity]
De cruce libri tres [...]. Editio ultima, seriò casigata.
Amsterdam, A. Frisius, 1670
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
12mo: [22]-240-[21]-[3 bl.] pp.; 7 (of 9) pl. (missing frontispiece, tiny wormhole in some margins).
Contemporary Dutch binding: vellum with visible sewing, flat spine.
Later edition of Lipsius' successful treatise on the cross in Antiquity, based on the 4to edition of Antwerp 1606. Illustrated with 7 folding plates, 9 full-page woodcuts, 2 in texto and 1 vignette on title-page. Ref. BB III:924 (L210). Bound with, same place, ed. and date: NICQUET, Honorat.- Titulus sanctae crucis, seu Historia et mysterium tituli sanctae crucis Domini nostri Jesu Christi libri duo. 224-[16] pp. (pl. lacking, some ff. stained, tiny wormholes in some margins). Vignette on title-page. Ref. DBS V:1713:6.