Lot no. 38
LACTANCE. Divinarum institutionum libri VII. Basel, Andreas Cratander, 1521. - SALLUSTE. Bellum Catilinarium. Item Bellum Jugurthinum. Strasbourg, Ulrich Morhart, 1521. 2 works in one volume in-4, stamped saddle-skin on wood, multiple frames of roulettes and cold fillets, three-ribbed spine, traces of metal clasps (Germanic binding of the period). Beautiful Basel edition of the Institutions divines and other works of Lactantius, decorated with an elegant title frame after Holbein, wood-engraved lettering and the printer's mark on the last leaf. A rare school edition of Sallustus published in Strasbourg by Nikolaus Gerbel, with a fine woodcut title frame, has been bound in. Numerous handwritten annotations in both works. Missing upper part and corner of title, faint spotting, one spine split, clasps missing. USTC, 671383 (Lactantius) and 617484 (Sallustus).
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