Live auction - Lot 965
[Postincunable - Paris imprint]
Opera [...].
Paris, B. Rembolt & J. Petit, 10 December 1518
€ 400 / 500
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Lot description
Folio: [22]-ccccl (= 450)-[8] ff. (very minor dampstaining at top of 1st & last ff., tear in blank bottom margin of a1 & g1).
Cont. blind-stamped calf over wood, spine on 5 raised bands with paper label, metal corner pcs, metal clasps and catches (rubbed, head def., some flylvs cut off). Excellent well-preserved copy.
Monumental ed. of the collected works of St Gregory the Great (540-604). Large woodcut mark of Rembolt on title. Title in red and black within elaborate woodcut border. Printed in gothic type, in 2 cols. Ref. BP16 103498 = Moreau II:1835. - Adams G-1165. - Pettegree FB 72646. - STC French (BL) 208. Prov. Monastic ownership entry on title. - "Michael Gerardi [...] dedit hunc librum [...] Simoni Bernardi Amstrodamensi Amico integerrimo. Anno 1566 [...]" (ms. on flyleaf). - Libr. stamps.