Live auction - Lot 589
[Auction catalogue]
Catalogue d’une collection de livres, provenus du Prieuré supprimé d’Elzeghem, près d’Audenarde en Flandres [...] la vente se fera publiquement à Gand [...] le 22 Août 1782 [...].
Ghent, P. de Goesin, 1782
€ 250 / 400
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Lot description
8vo: 28 pp. (1st and last f. soiled, loose and stained, blank bottom part of title cut off).
Sewn. Good copy.
Auction catalogue of the library of the Augustinian convent of Elsegem (Kasselrij Oudenaarde), sold on 22 August 1782. Among the 191 (+ 14) lots was an extensively described early printed Bible tentatively ascribed to Gutenberg (lot 146, pp. 20-22 - not listed in E. White’s 2017 census “Editio princeps”). Lots 147-191 (pp. 22-27) were manuscripts.
Ref. Bibl. gant. 4657. - Blogie I:28. - Not in STCV, Vandenhole.