Description:
Biel, Gabriel (d. 1495) Sermones Domincales, Hyemales, Estivales, De Tempore. Hagenau: Henrici Gran, 8 June & 10 July 1510. Quarto, containing two Sermones Medicinales, or Plague Sermons: Contra Pestilentiam, and De Fuga Pestis; text printed in a gothic typeface in two columns throughout, rubricated, bound in full contemporary blind-tooled calfskin over oak boards, parchment flyleaves front and back; repair to front joint, lacking one clasp, catches differ from each other; ex libris Otto Orren Fisher, with his bookplate inside the front board, some losses to leather covering material, housed in a custom chemise and slipcase, 8 1/2 x 6 in.
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Estimate $400-600
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