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Library of the late Harry & Virginia Walton
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Bloomsbury House
24 Maddox Street Mayfair, London, W1 S1PP ![]()
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Turrecremata (Johannes de) Expositio brevis et utilis super toto psalterio, 198ff. complete with initial and final blank, 31 lines, gothic letter, initials, paragraph-marks and initial strokes supplied in red, printer's device and 5 lines of colophon printed in red, worming throughout, heavier at beginning but mostly to margins, wide margins, some staining mostly to upper inner corner towards beginning, [BMC I, 34; Goff T524; Hain 15701; Proctor 115], Mainz, Peter Schoeffer, 4 April 1478; bound with Hieronymus (Saint) Aureola, 34ff. only (of 42, lacking signature b), double column, 32 lines, gothic letter, rubricated, some worming, mostly marginal, upper edge damp-stained becoming brittle towards end, [BMC II, 482; Goff H155; Hain Copinger 8586; Proctor 2322], [Speier, Printer of the 'Gesta Christi'], c.1472; bound with Augustine (Saint) [Soliloquia], 28ff., 34 lines, gothic letter, rubricated, some worming, mostly marginal, upper edge damp-stained with leaves towards end brittle and defective with some loss of text, [Goff A1333 and A1337; Hain 8589; not in BMC], [Augsburg, Günther Zainer, before 5 June 1473], together 3 works in 1, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, metal studs and corner-pieces, leather ties and one stud missing, some worming to covers, incunable leaves used as pastedowns, folio***A rare sammelband of incunabula in a contemporary binding.. ImagesClick on thumbnails to see larger images:
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