11-19-200611-19-2006
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBoston MA
2341Boston
November 19, 2006 11:00 AMCalender
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(Incunabula)

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$1,645$1,400
Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 2341Location: BostonDate / Time: November 19, 2006 11:00AM

Description:

(Incunabula), Paulus de Castro [fl. 1440], Consilia et Allegationes, Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1485, third edition, contemporary limp vellum, double column with seventy lines per, types 9:165G, 7:92(83)G (text),initials in red or blue, paragraph marks in blue and red and capital strokes in red with occassional yellow body color, with 286 of 294 leaves, folio, (lacking preliminaries, hinged cracked, lacking closures, approx. first twenty leaves with minor chewing and water staining to lower margin). Hain-Copinger 4641; British Museum XV Cent., vol. 2, p. 428; Stillwell P-145; Goff P-166.
Estimate $1,500-2,000

Keywords

Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, strokes