Live auction - Lot 1067
[Antiquity]
Summiktoon [Greek] siue Miscellaneorum decas una.
Leuven, S. Sassenus, June 1548
€ 1.500 / 2.000
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Lot description
8vo: [16]-324 [= 325]-[3] pp. (toned, occ. somewhat short).
18th-c. mottled leather, richly gilt flat spine with morocco label, red edges, green silk marker (sm. hole in front joint, sm. stain on lower cover). Good copy.
First ed. (repr. Lyon 1548) of a collection of philological essays on Latin authors by the Leuven Latin professor at the Collegium Trilingue P. Nannius (1500-1557). Woodcut mark at the end. Printed in italics.
Ref. BT 2189. - Adams N-19.
Bound with: 1. De Portis, L. - De sestertio, pecunijs, ponderibus, & mensuris antiquis libri duo. Freiburg (Br.), St. Graf, 1547. 83-[1-4 bl.] pp. Rare Freiburg ed. of a treatise on Roman coins, sizes and weights, 1st publ. Venice 1520. Printed in italics. Contemp. marginal annotations (cropped). Ref. VD16 P-4396. - Not in Adams. - 2. Brunus, C. - De caeremoniis capitula tria […]. Mainz, Fr. Behem, 1548. [48] ff. Very rare abridgment of a treatise on Roman ceremonies by the German humanist Konrad Braun (1495-1563). Ref. VD16 B-7199. - Not in Adams. - 3. Giraldus, L.G. - De sepulchris & uario sepeliendi ritu, libellus. Basel, M. Ising, 1539. [16]-79-[1] pp. Only ed. of a treatise on burial rites in Antiquity by the Ferrarese humanist Giraldi (1479-1552). Woodcut mark on title and at the end. Ref. VD16 G-2110. - Adams G-721.