Estimate € 300 - 500
Sold € 260
Auction: 22 January 2018 at 15:00
[DECRETALES] - Decretales D. Gregorii Papae IX. Venice: Giunta, 1595. A good copy of a fine edition printed in red and black. 4to (244 x 172mm). Title in red and black with printer's device, woodcut initials and two large woodcuts with a genealogical tree and an affinity tree, text in red and black, with blank 2X8 (occasional light browning, few scattered stains, mainly in the margins, sometimes in text as in 4D8 and 4E1). Contemporary vellum over wooden boards (some staining and chipping). Provenance: Giovanni Passarini (ownership inscription). In the same lot also Decretum Gratiani printed in red and black in contemporary vellum over wooden boards with the same provenance (lacking part of frontispiece, sold as viewed and not subject to return). (2)
Estimate € 300 - 500