Live auction - Lot 843
[France - Poitiers]
Cordiale quattuor nouissimorum.
[Poitiers, J. Bouyer, c. 1490]
€ 2.000 / 3.000
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Lot description
4to: [42] ff., 33 ll. (some minor spotting).
19th-c. blind-decorated sheep, flat spine, sp. edges (rubbed, head and tail def.). Very good copy with wide margins.
Extr. rare 4th recorded (and 2nd complete) copy. According to the Gesamtkatalog, printed by J. Bouyer in Poitiers, after the 1482-1485 Paris ed. by Antoine Caillaut (GW 7480). “Pellechet and Polain assign the printing to Guy Marchant, Paris. The text is ascribed to Dionysius Carthusiensis and Gerardus de Vliederhoven” (ISTC). Printed in gothic type. Capital spaces (a single guide-letter on a1r). Ref. ISTC ic00893300 [3]. - GW 7495. - Polain 1172 (1: Ghent). - IDL 1397. - Pellechet 5084. - Not in BMC, BSB-Ink, CIBN, Goff. Prov. Old bibliographical notes at top of title. - Armorial bookplate Robert Mackenzie Beverley. - [Georges Petit].