Auction: Sale #2218 - 2218Location: BostonDate / Time: November 02, 2003 11:00AM
Description:
Plinius Secundus, Gaius (23-79),Historia Naturalis, Venice, Nicolaus Jenson, 1472, old vellum, with twenty-six large divisional initials in blue, green, pale lavender, and gold; small initials in blue, illuminated initials and 343 of 358 leaves, with extremely faint marginalia, (scattered foxing, spine poor). Goff P-788.
Estimate $6,000-9,000