St. Bonaventura [Bonaventure]

Dieta Salutis . . Nova impressus ac emendates

      St. Bonaventura [Bonaventure], Dieta Salutis . . Nova impressus ac emendates, Printed by Joannis de Quarengiis (Venice), 1 February 1497/98. 4 1/2 x 6 inches, clean large copy with title page and register, 115 leaves, 19 unnumbered, 35 lines in double column and headline, printed in Gothic (black letter) type with one woodcut initial capital to Prologue. Variant colophon ("Jo/annis"). A curious and unrecorded variant with misprints on leaves 18, 20, 22, and 24 which reprint (and are in the place of) leaves 17, 19, 21 and 23, small wormhole to front endpaper and very occasional thumbsoiling and spotting with otherwise very clean and bright pages, light marginal dampstaining affecting some leaves, bound in contemporary flexible vellum with manuscript title to spine and inscriptions on front and rear covers all in a humanist hand, covers chipped and soiled though with nice patina. Hinges are cracked to reveal text block, with an old vellum repair to tail of spine. Provenance: Cassioli Camolus Tagliacollo (inscription to fep), Sr. Felix Riccoaus Franamintus (inscription to fep), Fancisci Mauri Gran. (inscription to title page), humanist inscriptions to endpapers and rear pastedown, and old bookseller's listing on front pastedown, Goff B-879; GW 4730 (Pseudo-Bonaventura); BMC V 513; HC 3531; a very good and unrecorded variant printing of this scarce work; Inventory #578 Please contact us at cmkester@nwark.com with any questions, or to request a print or electronic catalogue. We are professional antiquarian bookdealers with an extensive inventory of religious antiquarian volumes from 1500-1850, and are a member in good standing of the Arkansas Antiquarian Booksellers Association. St. Wulfstan’s Books.