[Polydore Vergil], Polydori Vergilii Urbinatis De rerum inve...

Hammer

£60

[Polydore Vergil], Polydori Vergilii Urbinatis De rerum inventoribus libri octo. Eiusdem in orationem dominicam commentariolum ; cum indice & rerum & verborum locupletissimo, [Geneva]: Typis Jacobi Stoer, Impensis Nicolai Bassej, 1590, incomplete, last signature index leaf [3B8], title-page soiled with slight loss, otherwise unexamined and sold as seen, contemporary limp vellum, contents basically disbound, covers with contemporary owner's monogram: M over I*E, spine later titled in manuscript, 16mo

Provenance: 1) M/I*E, contemporary 16th/early 17th c monogrammed binding. 2) Johannis Johnston/Edinburgi/1836, ink MS ownership on recto pastedown, loosely-inserted MS scrap in which the then owner evidently confuses the previous owner with the earlier namesake and Scottish Latin poet (c. 1570-1611). 3) St Aloysius' College Library, Glasgow, the Jesuits' institutional stamp in several places.