Live auction - Lot 787
[Bibliography]
Bibliotheca instituta et collecta [...] deinde in Epitomen redacta [ed. Josias Simler].
Zürich, Chr. Froschauer, 1574
€ 600 / 800
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Lot description
Folio: [10]-691-[41] pp. (prelim. blank *8 lacking; part of blank top margin of title cut off, unobtrusive dampstain in bottom margin).
Old vellum, flat spine titled in ink, blue edges (soiled, spine def. but firm, ties gone, flylvs gone). Good copy.
2nd edition (1st 1555), greatly enlarged, of the Epitome by J. Simler (1530-1576) of the 1st universal bibliography (1545) by the Swiss scholar Gesner (1516-1565). Woodcut mark on title. Printed in 2 cols. Ref. VD-16 G-1704. - Adams G-514. - STC German (BL) 357. - Printing and the Mind of Man 73 (1st ed.). Prov. Old ownership entries on title. - Henr. Ios. Rega, 1690-1754, Louvain professor of medicine (armorial bookpl.). - Libr. stamp.