Description
Dupuis (François) Cathena Aurea Super Psalmos, collation: AA8 BB4 a-y8 A-Q8 R6, double column, Gothic type, printed in red and black, title with woodcut printer's device at foot, full-page woodcut of King David at his harp to verso of BB4, handsome woodcut criblé initials, early ink marginalia, p3&4 upper corners torn away, with loss of part of a side-note on p3, wormholes within text, some staining, mostly marginal, contemporary blind-stamped panelled calf over wooden boards, rebacked in 20th century calf, some loss of calf on covers, corners repaired, 4to (253 x 176mm.), Paris, Jean Petit, March, 1520.
⁂ First edition of these commentaries on the Psalms, by the Carthusian Dupuis, handsomely printed in Paris. Rare at auction.
Literature: Adams P2294 (under Puteo).
Lot 15
Dupuis (François) Cathena Aurea Super Psalmos, first edition of these commentaries, 4to, Paris, Jean Petit, 1520.
Estimate: £400 - 600
Description
Dupuis (François) Cathena Aurea Super Psalmos, collation: AA8 BB4 a-y8 A-Q8 R6, double column, Gothic type, printed in red and black, title with woodcut printer's device at foot, full-page woodcut of King David at his harp to verso of BB4, handsome woodcut criblé initials, early ink marginalia, p3&4 upper corners torn away, with loss of part of a side-note on p3, wormholes within text, some staining, mostly marginal, contemporary blind-stamped panelled calf over wooden boards, rebacked in 20th century calf, some loss of calf on covers, corners repaired, 4to (253 x 176mm.), Paris, Jean Petit, March, 1520.
⁂ First edition of these commentaries on the Psalms, by the Carthusian Dupuis, handsomely printed in Paris. Rare at auction.
Literature: Adams P2294 (under Puteo).
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