JUSTINIAN I, Emperor of the East
£340
Auction: 1 February 2005 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Institutiones iuris civilis, cum additionibus ... omnia ex editione ... Sylvestri Aldobrandini ... cum indice ... eiusdem D. Sylvestri composito ... With a fldg. woodcut printed in red and black showing the family tree of the various areas of the law, text in two columns surrounded by scholia, printed in red and back throughout, printer's devices on the titlepage and on the verso of the final leaf, contemporary calf, with gilt fillet and gilt oval centrepiece, rubbed, small piece of leather missing from corner of lower cover, endpapers renewed, the inner margin of the fldg. woodcut torn, some instances of marginal water staining, some marginalia in ink in an early hand, 8vo., Lyons: apud Antonium Vincentium [in fine: excud. Dionysius de Harly], 1546
Note: Not in Adams or the BM STC 16th Century French Books