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Lot 206
Sale 4605 - Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Jun 20, 2019
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$1,200 -
1,800
Price Realized
$3,625
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Lot Description
[Early Printing] Biblia Latina
[Venice]: [Johann Herbort, April 30, 1484]. 4to; leaf size 240 x 172mm. Collation: a2-b8, c12, d-g8, hi 12, k-t8, v12,x-y8, z2, A-N8, O6, P-Z8, ZZ12, aa-dd8. 407 of 408 leaves. Lacking leaf a1; last three leaves repaired. 18th century gilt-paneled straight grain brown morocco, rebacked in brown calf. Dampstains in most margins and gutters, most pronounced on leaves a2-c1, heaviest to leaves ZZ1- dd8; leaves dd6-dd8 repaired, worming to bottom margins of leaves cc1-dd5, small repairs to same, a few leaves chipped at bottom blank margins, book-plate remnants on front paste-down, pencil notation on front paste-down, as well as front free endpaper and rear blank. Hain-Copinger 3901; Goff 580; BMC V 304; ISTC ib00580000.