BAUVAIS (Vincent de). Speculum historiale. [1473-76. - Lot 3

BAUVAIS (Vincent de). Speculum historiale. [1473-76. 2 large folio volumes, incunabula edition, text printed on 2 columns and 67 lines. A few raised capitals in red at the beginning of the first volume. Bound in full contemporary leather on wooden boards, boards decorated with cold stamping, spine with 7 bands. Incomplete copy, the two volumes constituting volumes 3 and 4 of the work, the third volume containing 16 books, incomplete of books X and XI and the beginning of book XII; the fourth volume containing 32 books, incomplete of several leaves. (incomplete, significant wear to binding, numerous wormholes, missing leather, later clasps, some soiling, some traces of heavier wetness in fourth volume, significant wormholes in margins of book 12 with major marginal restorations, several quires detached, minor marginal restorations).