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Thu, May 30, 2024 01:00PM EDT
Lot 258

GEORG MAJOR'S 1564 POETRY, AN ANCIENT VELLUM BINDING FROM THE 16TH CENTURY

Estimate: $1,320 - $1,500

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Year/Century: 16th century
Language: Latin
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Binding: Vellum
Description: Per locos communes digestae, Sententiae veterum poetarum... Jerome de Marnef, Georg Major Paris, De poetica virtute, libellus plane aureus; 1564 Dimensions: 3 1/4 by 4 3/4"; 253, [17] pages; printer's mark at the colophon and on the title page. original limp vellum with the title of the text on the spine First 80 pages have a faded dampstain in the lower outside corner. A highly uncommon edition of an anthology that saw a lot of success and numerous reprints, with some binding damage. Latin text

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