Lot 93

Horst, Jakob

£420

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography

Auction: 13 January 2016 at 11:00 GMT

Description

Precationes medicorum piae. Helmstädt: [Jacobus Lucius], 1585. Small 12mo, folding table, each page with woodcut border, contemporary North German vellum binding with initials IBDCGHMG and gilt image of the Christ Child to upper cover, with the date 1585 to lower cover and gilt image of the resurrected Christ with the letters VDMIE (Verbum Domini manet in eternum), gauffred edges dyed red, green silk ties (three ties lacking), small repair to f.45 affecting engraved area and some letters, letters occasionally obscured by small stains, some tarnishing, rubbing and slight worming to covers [USTC 686325]

Footnote

Provenance: J.R. Abbey's morocco gilt booklabel (sold by Sotheby's on 20th June 1967, lot 1926)