15th Mar, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
Lot 70
 

70

Vergil, Polydore Urbinatis de rerum inventoribus libri octo bound with Urbinatis Dialogorum. Basel

Vergil, Polydore
Urbinatis de rerum inventoribus libri octo bound with Urbinatis Dialogorum. Basel: Mich. Isingriniu[m], 1550. 8vo, handsomely bound in full contemporary calf, boards elaborately decorated with broad blind fillet borders with fleur-dy-lis cornerpieces enclosing foliate roll-tooled borders with roundels bearing heads all around a central vignette of a man with a lion with smaller spear carriers above and below the vignette, spine with five raised bands, compartments decorated with floral roll-tool of the previous border, bevelled board-edges, metal corner-pieces, two clasps, older MSS used for endpapers; pp. [48], 524, [2 (blank)], [6], 205, [1 (blank)]; floriated and inhabited initials; provenance: Cuthbert 1790 (owner's ink inscription and occasional neat MSS marginalia) -- Stones (armorial bookplate to ffep). In Latin.

Sold for £800
Estimated at £150 - £250


 

. Binding a little worn but still handsome, clean internally, an attractive copy.

 


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