A choice selection of incunabula brings to auction infrequently seen editions of Johannes Jacobus Canis’s 1476 guide to the study of civil and canon law; Albertus Magnus’s comprehensive lapidary De mineralibus, Pavia, 1491; and Philippus Beroaldus’s philosophical tract on happiness, De felicitate opusculum, Bologna, 1495.
Our November 12 auction of Early Printed, Medical & Scientific Books features religious texts, early manuscripts and illuminated works, incunabula, scientific treatises, philosophical classics and more. Among these is Edward…
The February 28 auction of Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books offered a number of incunabula, early printed editions of Greek plays by Euripides, Pindar and Sophocles as well…
(Bible in Latin) Portion of vellum leaf from Vulgate manuscript…, Germany, 9th century. Estimate: $1,500 to 2,500. Deborah Chaleff and Jacqueline Feinberg introduce the Early Printed Books & Manuscripts…
