LIVY
£750
Auction: 1 February 2005 at 11:00 GMT
Description
T. Livii ... quæ extant Decades. ... Cum indice literaria serie etiam in Epitomen L. Flori: adjectis compluribus prius intermissis: rursus ab Ascensio collecto. Cum praenotamentis, regulis, & omnium vocularum ... subdifficilium ... ejusdem explicatione. ... Cum L. Flori in omneis libros epitome recognita. ... Cum annotationibus M. Atonii . Sabellici. recognitis. Cumque primae praefationis familiari Ascensii prefati explanatione ... Titlepage in red and black within a woodcut border of columns and mythological figures and with the device of Jean Petit, ff. [xl], 280, woodcut initials, early calf, gilt ruled outer border, central gilt panel with fleur de lys at the corners containing the gilt arms of Louis XIII of France, spine decorated gilt in compartments each bearing a double "N" in gilt, a.e.g., binding with some scuff marks and earlier repairs, margins of titlepage aand first few leaves a little stained, folio, Paris: venundantur ab Joanne Paruo [in fine: ex aed. Ascensianis, 1516]
Note: Renouard Vol. 3 no 3. Not in Adams. The title-border comprises elements of the first Renaissance title-border used at Paris, originally first seen on Badius's Cicero of 1511 and which was copied from from the so-called Mallermi Bible printed at Venice in October 1490 (See: Goldschmidt The printed book of the Renaissance, p. 66