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AMBROSIUS, SAINT Opera [edited by Johann Amerbach], vol.1 (of 3), [Basel, Johannes Petri, 12 September 1506]
29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £535.50 inc. premium
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AMBROSIUS, SAINT
Opera [edited by Johann Amerbach], vol.1 (of 3), 285 leaves, 49 lines plus headline, gothic type, large woodcut of St. Ambrose on the title, early ink annotation to lower margin of title (faded) and to occasional margins, 2 single wormholes to lower margin of final leaf, wooden boards, rebacked preserving portions of early tooled calf, leather gilt label to spine, clasps missing, minor wear [ISTC ia00551500; Adams A934; BMC Ger. 25], 4to (215 x 150mm.), [Basel, Johannes Petri, 12 September 1506]
Footnotes
A 1506 re-issue of Amerbach's folio edition of 1492.
Provenance: Bundesdenkmalamt Wien, ink stamp on lower pastedown. Between 1920-1934 the Federal Monuments Authority of Austria (Bundesdenkmalamt) used this round stamp, with the inscription "Bundesdenkmalamt Wien", on objects for which it had issued an export licence. Bonhams wishes to thank the Austrian Government's Kommission für Provenienzforschung for confirming this.