Early Books, Three Volumes, and Manuscript Leaf.

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Early Books, Three Volumes, and Manuscript Leaf. Saint Augustine's, Varii Sermoni di Santo Agostino, Venice: Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1567, quarto, in modern parchment over stiff boards, 8 x 5 1/2 in.; Camden's Britannia, Frankfurt: Wechel, impensis Petrus Fischer & Haeredum Henricus Tackius, 1590, Latin edition, thick octavo, title printed in red and black, contemporary limp parchment, cover detached from textblock, 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.; a defective copy of Polydore Vergil's Works The Works of the Famous Antiquary, Polidore Virgil, London: Miller, 1663, lacking the title and preliminary leaves, not collated, octavo, later full calf, nicely decorated, rubbed, joints dry and starting, 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.; [and] Bruce Ferrini's The Thirteenth Century Bible, an essay, with an original leaf from such a Bible, in full modern leather with metal bosses, the leaf housed in a sleeve bound with the essay, 7 x 5 in. (4)
Estimate $200-400


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