Auction 11 - I / BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPHS

thu 15 NOVEMBER -  fri 16 NOVEMBER 2012
Lot 5

Aux armes della famiglia Strozzi

Macrobius Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius

[ Marcus Tullius Cicero ]
Incunabolo, Collezionismo e Bibiografia

In Somnium Scipionis expositio. Saturnalia.

(Al colophon:) ... Libri impressi Brixie per Boninum de Boninis de Ragusia, 1485.

Folio (mm 310x206). Leaves [175 of 176, missing a1, blank leaf]. Signatures a8 (-a1, blank leaf), b-c6, d8, e-f6, g-p6, r8, s-z6, &6 [con]6 [rum]6, A8. Small worm holes along the volume. Stains and rust stains passim. Rubricated. Sixteenth Century notes and corrections. Large border in the "bianco girare" style on leaf 1. Three crescent moons painted in the lower cartouche, usual coat of arms of the Strozzi family of Florence. Xylographic globe on leaf F5r. Twentieth Century vellum. Handwritten ex libris from the 18th Century in Catalan: Ramon Serra Parera.



Terza edizione, rara assai, del commento di Macrobio al Sogno di Scipione ciceroniano. Particolarmente pregiato il planisfero a carta F5r su cui cfr. Shirley, 13 che nota: «includes a geographic concept which is different from that of Ptolemy». Hain-Copinger, 10428; Goff, M10; BMC VII, 969; IGI, 5925. IBE, 3636; Klebs, 638.3; GW, M1969.97.

Base price
EUR 8.000,00
sold : Registration