SPECULUM HISTORIALE.

(INCUNABULAR LEAF). VINCENT OF BEAUVAIS.

(Strassburg: Johann Mentelin, 1473). 435 x 308 mm. (17 1/8 x 12"). Double column, 62 lines in roman type. Second Edition.

Attractively matted. Capitals struck with yellow, paragraph marks and underlining in red, headlines in red or blue, five three-line initials painted in red or blue. Top edge and fore edge stained in red. Goff V-283; BMC I, 57; ISTC iv00283000. ◆Thin stain along edge of inner margin, one tiny marginal wormhole, but A VERY FINE LEAF--the paper extremely smooth, bright and clean--from this major Medieval encyclopedia, the present edition published the same year as the first.
(ST16379-231)

Price: $750.00