Lot 7
Dionysius Areopagita. Theologia vivificans … coelestis hierarchia. Ecclestiastica hierarchia, Paris, Henri Estienne and Wolfgang Hopyl, 1515.
Hammer Price: £700
Description
Dionysius Areopagita. Theologia vivificans … coelestis hierarchia. Ecclestiastica hierarchia, collation a-z8 A-E8, title within circles inside an elaborate woodcut featuring eagles and trees, woodcut illustrations and initials, ink notes in multiple early hands to margins throughout, more extensive in places and to endpapers, scattered tiny worm holes to initial ff. including title (just touching letters), n1-p5 worming to gutter (not affecting text), small paper repair margin b5, stain to c3 affecting following few leaves as well, splitting to gutter some ff. working loose but generally holding, contemporary English calf over boards in a panel design of borders featuring foliate and animal figures, Tudor Rose and double-headed eagle corner-pieces, and central Rose between two rampant quadrupeds (?lions, horses, dragons), lower cover lacking calf, lacking back-strip, scattered worm holes, folio, Paris, Henri Estienne and Wolfgang Hopyl, 1515.
⁂ Possibly using Oldham stamp 320 & 321 of Tudor Rose and double-headed eagle.
Literature: Adams D523.
Description
Dionysius Areopagita. Theologia vivificans … coelestis hierarchia. Ecclestiastica hierarchia, collation a-z8 A-E8, title within circles inside an elaborate woodcut featuring eagles and trees, woodcut illustrations and initials, ink notes in multiple early hands to margins throughout, more extensive in places and to endpapers, scattered tiny worm holes to initial ff. including title (just touching letters), n1-p5 worming to gutter (not affecting text), small paper repair margin b5, stain to c3 affecting following few leaves as well, splitting to gutter some ff. working loose but generally holding, contemporary English calf over boards in a panel design of borders featuring foliate and animal figures, Tudor Rose and double-headed eagle corner-pieces, and central Rose between two rampant quadrupeds (?lions, horses, dragons), lower cover lacking calf, lacking back-strip, scattered worm holes, folio, Paris, Henri Estienne and Wolfgang Hopyl, 1515.
⁂ Possibly using Oldham stamp 320 & 321 of Tudor Rose and double-headed eagle.
Literature: Adams D523.
