Lot 41

Macrobius, Ambrosius Theodosius

Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 7 September 2011 at 12:00 BST
£2,000
Description
Macrobii Aurelii Theodosii.... in somnium Scipionis libri duo. Apud Sanctam Coloniam: [apud Eucharium Ceruicornum], 1521. [xii], CXLVI [ie. CXLVIII], Folio in eights, title within woodcut border; Irenicus, Franciscus Germaniae exegeseos volumina duodecima Francisco Irenico Ettelingiacensi exarata. Hagenoæ, 1518. Folio in sixes, [6], 222, [29]f., woodcut device on colophon, 2 works in one volume, contemporary vellum, tiny wormhole to margin of a few leaves
Footnote
Provenance: Jacob de Burck, early inscription on title; Pieter Burman (1668-1741), Dutch classicist and philologist, inscription on endpaper; Briglands bookplate.
