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Live veiling - Lot 820
[Italy - Milan]
Specchio di Croce.
Milan, [P. de Suardis], 5 March 1481
€ 1.500 / 2.000
Live bieden (Drouot*) Live bieden (Invaluable*)Biedingen zijn afgesloten.
Beschrijving lot
8vo: [109] ff., 30 ll. (lacking initial blank; some marg. soiling, tear in blank bottom margin of l5).
Mod. overl. vellum over boards, gilt flat spine with red leather labels. Very good wide-margined copy.
Extr. rare Milan incunable. 3rd ed. (1st Venice 1476) of a vernacular devotional treatise, inspired by the image of Christ on the cross, by the Italian Dominican Cavalca (1270?-1342). Printed in gothic type. Rubricated, with some 3-line initials painted yellow. Ref. ISTC ic00343600. - GW 6416. - IGI 2640. - BMC VI:758. - CIBN C-197. - Not in BSB-Ink, Goff. Prov. A few old reader’s marks and notes (some partly removed). - [Georges Petit].