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Lot 126
Sale 6417 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Sep 10, 2025
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Live / Philadelphia
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$2,000 -
3,000
Price Realized
$3,200
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Lot Description
[Early Printing] [Incunable] Paratus. Sermones Parati de tempore et de sanctis
Strassburg: (Martin Flach, ca. 1490). Chancery folio. 199 leaves; lacking last blank leaf. Gothic type, in 51 lines and headline, and in double column. Capital spaces, with printed guide-letters, three- to five-line initials in red and blue, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlinings in red. 19th-century quarter red morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt, corners worn, splitting to joints, covers dampstained; dampstaining near upper gutter, affecting text; marginal browning; a few small repairs. Provenance: some marginalia in an early hand; Harry Gardner (ownership signature, dated 1922). USTC 747691; ISTC ip00103500
Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Ephemeral Americana and Historical Documents


