HISTORIA ALEXANDRI MAGNI, STRASSBURG 1486.

ALEXANDER MAGNUS. Historia Alexa(n)dri magni regis macedoniede prelijs. Strassburg, (printer of Jordanus of Quedlinburg), 1486.

Folio (about 273x190 mm., binding 282x198 mm.). 37 leaves (of 38,lacks last blank), sign. a8b6-f5 (lacks blank f6). Printed in 2 columns, 43 lines. Rubricated in red.
16th century blindtooled half pigskin over wooden boards, worn, boards with musical print in red and black, blank spine in four compartments. Throughout worming in text and margins, but no significant loss of text. Some minor dampstaining in lower margin.
GW876; Hain 779.

Provenance: Sven Borgström was born in Malmö in 1927 and worked as a chemist in Stockholm, Malmö and Lund. His fine library which was built up over many years, consists mainly of older books dated from the 15th century to the late 18th century. His book-collecting began, as it perhaps should, with an incunabula. Borgström's interests included printers, book bindings, book illustrations, and he was interested in history, travel and maps. As a result of previous coin collecting, the subject of numismatics was also of interest in his library. Sven Borgström died 95 years old.

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