Ventes live - Lot 740
[Italy - Venice]
Sermones de sanctis.
Venice, Fr. de Heilbronn, N. de Frankfordia, 1473
€ 1.500 / 2.500
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Description du lot
4to: [313 (of 314)] ff., 42 ll. (last blank lacking, foxing, marginal wormholes in 1st and last ff., some ff. stained, light marginal dampstains, tear in 1st f. repaired).
Mod. blind-stamped leather with Renaissance-like pattern, flat spine with title in gilt, red sprinkled edges, gilt roll-stamps on the borders, gilt inside dentelles (rubbed). Nice wide-margined copy.
First edition (?), an edition of Leonardus' sermons was also published the same year in Cologne by U. Zell, but the question of precedence has not been solved. The Dominican Leonardus (1400?-1469) was one the great preachers of his time. Text in gothic type, in 2 cols. Rubricated in red and blue ink. Ref. ISTC il00152000 (folio or 4to). - Goff L-152. - Polain 2480. - BMC V:192. - CIBN L-124. - BSB-Ink L-108. Prov. [Georges Petit].