Lot 249
Kempis (Thomas à) Opera, Nuremberg, Caspar Hochfeder, 29 November, 1494.
Estimate: £1,500 - 2,000
Description
Kempis (Thomas à, Saint) Opera, collation: [*4] a b8 c d6 e f8 g-m8.6. n o6 p8 q6 r-B8.6.6. C8, double column, 184ff., 53 lines plus headline, Gothic type, initials in red, rubricated, occasional early ink annotations, b2 corner defective affecting text on 8 lines, occasional soiling or marginal light staining, broken with some leaves becoming loose, contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, worn, lacking backstrip, upper cover detached, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box, folio (298 x 209mm.), Nuremberg, Caspar Hochfeder, 29 November, 1494.
⁂ Important collected edition of Thomas a Kempis's works, including his De Imitatione Christi.
Literature: BMC II, 302; Goff T-352; HC 9769; GW M46672; Bod-inc T-090; BSB-Ink T-195.
Description
Kempis (Thomas à, Saint) Opera, collation: [*4] a b8 c d6 e f8 g-m8.6. n o6 p8 q6 r-B8.6.6. C8, double column, 184ff., 53 lines plus headline, Gothic type, initials in red, rubricated, occasional early ink annotations, b2 corner defective affecting text on 8 lines, occasional soiling or marginal light staining, broken with some leaves becoming loose, contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, worn, lacking backstrip, upper cover detached, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box, folio (298 x 209mm.), Nuremberg, Caspar Hochfeder, 29 November, 1494.
⁂ Important collected edition of Thomas a Kempis's works, including his De Imitatione Christi.
Literature: BMC II, 302; Goff T-352; HC 9769; GW M46672; Bod-inc T-090; BSB-Ink T-195.
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