The Wardington Library: Incunabula and the Wardington Hours
Catalog Information: 43 lots with images
Date: 2006
Auction House:
Sotheby's
Location:
United Kingdom
Lot 1: APPIANUS ALEXANDRINUS ( FL. C . 160 AD).
HISTORIA ROMANA; DE BELLIS CIVILIBUS [TRANSLATED BY PIER CANDIDO DECEMBRIO]. VENICE: ERHARD RATDOLT, BERNHARD MALER AND PETER LÖSLEIN, 1477 2 parts in one volume, 4to (285 x 200mm.), 132+212 leaves, 32 lines, Roman letter, printed marginalia, a2 of e [...more]
Lot 2: ARISTOTLE (384-322 BC).
ETHICA AD NICOMACHUM. POLITICA. OECONOMICA [TRANSLATED BY LEONARDUS BRUNUS ARETINUS]. [STRASSBURG: JOHANN MENTELIN, BEFORE 10 APRIL 1469] Chancery folio (287 x 210mm.), 196 leaves (of 198, without blanks d8 and m10), 32 lines, Gothic letter, [e]1r wi [...more]
Lot 3: AUGUSTINE (354-430),
SAINT, BISHOP OF HIPPO. DE CIVITATE DEI [WITH COMMENTARY BY THOMAS WALEYS AND NICOLAUS TRIVET]. MAINZ: PETER SCHOEFFER, 5 SEPTEMBER 1473 Royal folio (391 x 276mm.), 364 leaves (of 365, without final blank), double column, 45 and 60 lines, Gothic lett [...more]
Lot 4: BERNARD
(1090-1153), OF CLAIRVAUX, SAINT. OPUSCULA. [COLOGNE: PRINTER OF SALOMO ET MARCOLPHUS, C. 1478] Chancery folio (280 x 195mm.), 112 leaves, double column, 40 lines, Gothic letter, 3- to 5-line initial spaces, first initial space with a red and blue in [...more]
Lot 5: BINDUS DE SENIS.
BIBLIA AUREA. [STRASSBURG]: JOHANN GRÜNINGER, 6 DECEMBER 14[9]6 4to (202 x 133mm.), 122 leaves, double column, 37 lines plus headline, Gothic letter, 3-line initial spaces with red woodcut initials added by hand, nineteenth-century navy morocco gilt, [...more]
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