1528. BOOK: (GOTHIC-CLASSICS). SENECA: PROVERBS. Seville: Jacobo Cromberger,...
1528. BOOK: (GOTHIC-CLASSICS). SENECA: PROVERBS. Seville: Jacobo Cromberger, 1528. 4th major. 6 h. + LXII fol. (sign. a6, b8-h8, i6). Two-column text in Gothic script. Wooden capitals. Enc. on recent parchment, labeled hump. Very clean, it's been cleaned. Some expertly done restoration. Some old handwritten note. There are several foliation errors. It is a Spanish edition of this work that has several incunabula in Latin. The proverbs enjoyed great success in Spanish humanist circles and were frequently reprinted, this is the third time that Cromberger printed them in Seville, preceded by 1500 and 1512. CCPB 23360-9, cites only five copies in public libraries in Spain. Palau 307849.
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1528. BOOK: (GOTHIC-CLASSICS). SENECA: PROVERBS. Seville: Jacobo Cromberger, 1528. 4th major. 6 h. + LXII fol. (sign. a6, b8-h8, i6). Two-column text in Gothic script. Wooden capitals. Enc. on recent parchment, labeled hump. Very clean, it's been cleaned. Some expertly done restoration. Some old handwritten note. There are several foliation errors. It is a Spanish edition of this work that has several incunabula in Latin. The proverbs enjoyed great success in Spanish humanist circles and were frequently reprinted, this is the third time that Cromberger printed them in Seville, preceded by 1500 and 1512. CCPB 23360-9, cites only five copies in public libraries in Spain. Palau 307849.
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