Sold for:
$1,063
$1,063
Antwerp: Jan Steels, 1556. Small 8vo, rebound in quarter red morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine. First edition. With two plates, one fold-out, and numerous in-text woodcut illustrations. Bookplates of neurologist Jules Sottas, Pierre Bellamy, and Alberto Pimpinelli, attache for Science and Technology of the French Embassy in Houston, tipped to front pastedowns. Light wear to boards; with facsimile poem to author and coat-of-arms of the dedicatee, Philip V of Spain; light soiling.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2014-03-27
