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Sale 800 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
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Nov 12, 2020 4:00AM CT
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Nov 13, 2020 4:00AM CT
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BEROALDUS, Philippus (1453-1505). Declamatio ebriosi, scortatoris et aleatoris. Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 1499.


Small 4to (197 x 145 mm). Collation: a-b8, c4. 20 leaves. 27 lines. Roman and Greek types. Woodcut printer's device at end, initial spaces with guide-letters. (Title slightly soiled with short marginal tears, single worm-hole touching letters throughout, minor worm-hole to lower margin of a few leaves.) 20th-century half calf gilt (some light rubbing, minor losses to spine ends). Provenance: Old ownership inscriptions crossed out on title-page.  

FIRST EDITION with the first word on ff.3 as "Argumentum", and with the colophon as described in Hain.  A second edition of the same year has the first word on ff.3 in majuscules and the colophon as described in BMC. Beroaldus' well-known satire against drunkenness, whoring and gambling is written in the form of a dialogue between the three vices.  BMC VI, 845 (see note); BSB-Ink B-370; GW 4130; Goff B-471; Hain 2965. 


Property from the Collection of Edward A. Quattrocchi

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