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Lot 345
Sale 5041 - Books & Manuscripts
Sep 26, 2013
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$1,500 -
2,500
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$850
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Lot Description
1 vol.
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1 vol.
Basil the Great. Opera. Basel: Froben, 1552. Edited by J. Cornarius. Folio, old Flemish blind-stamped calf over wooden bds, the front centered by a panel of Saint Gertrude in an architectural frame, the rear panel a coat of arms of Philip Hosdin, dated 1557; rebacked, lacking clasps and studs, worn and scuffed. Decorated initials. Ink stamps to title page. Some dampstaining to lower gutter of rear matter and occasional discoloration, creasing to front matter. Text generally clean.
Adams B-340.
Philip Hosdin, 20th Abbott of the Augustinian Monastry of Saint Gertrude at Louvain.