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1600046554Coloniae Vbiorum Cologne: Cholini 1600. Later Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Contemporary full pigskin soiled and stained but sound. A few private library marks old names crossed out on title signatures to front blank modest browning to text block with scattered minor wear and worming to margins mispgination neatly corrected;generally quite clean overall with in text portraits throughout. 8 532 16 83pp blanks intact. <br/><br/>Platina's history of the popes first printed in 1479. He was also the author of the first printed cookbook a collection of recipes from Martino di Como 1475. His description of events in the Vitis Pontificum around the 1456 appearance of Halley's comet during the reign of Pope Callixtus III gave rise to the persistent tale that the comet was excommunicated. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Religion & Theology. Inventory No: 046554. Cholini hardcover books
1559046914Venice: Paul Manutium Aldus 1559. Hardcover Half Vellum. Very Good Condition. 18th century vellum backed boards worn at corners and a bit soiled title page stained an torn with loss in a few spots and a paper repair in the gutter; scattered staining and foxing elsewhere but generally clean small wormtrail in the lower margin at the end of the index touching a few letters. Still about very good overall - two volumes bound as one separate title for part two the index. 28 1-976 numbered columns i.e. 488 pages 36 132 pp. Index volume dated 1558; Ahmanson-Murphy 575<br/><br/>Pliny both compiled current knowledge of the world citing over 400 authorities and added to it himself . Not just the model for all encyclopedias to follow it is the ur-book of reference the model for an eclectic boundlessly useful assortment of human knowledge. "Over and over again it will be found that the source of some ancient piece of knowledge is Pliny Printing and the Mind of Man 5 Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046914. Paul Manutium (Aldus) hardcover books
1553045324Lyon: Guillaume Rouille 1553. First Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Contemporary vellum darkened worn at corners old inscription to front blank dampstain to upper right corner early on and lower margin towards the end modest browning and foxing crease to center of last 30 pages. 2 volumes in one each page with medallion portraits and a brief biography of celebrated figures from Adam to Henry II. viii 172 4pp; 247 8pp. Graesse V 458 Adams P2161 Bib. Lyon. IX 205. Size: Quarto 4to. Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; Biography & Autobiography. Inventory No: 045324. <br/><br/> Guillaume Rouille hardcover books
1580045019Venice: Stamerla della Luna 1580. First Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Contemporary limp vellum soiled a few old stamps to spine lacking front endpaper and pastedown torn. A few pencil marks to table and errata otherwise clean - a nicely printed edition of Sonsovino's history of the world. It appeared a year before his celebrated history of Venice. liv 2 303pp. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 045019. <br/><br/> Stamerla della Luna hardcover books
1582045463Geneva: Jacob Stoer 1582. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary rolled calf over wooden boards. Calf dry and degraded missing in spots wood worn at the edges with some loss. Remains of clasps; binding still quite sound. Light age toning to pages scattered creases and minor flaws generally very clean internally. Attractively printed with historiated initials head and tail pieces and a vignette portrait of Livy. 14 623 29 leaves. Adams 1355 Graesse IV 234. The first French edition of the complete Livy and a monumental work of Renaissance scholarship. It was also printed in an octavo edition by Stoer in 3 volumes also 1582 and reprinted in folio by Chouet in 1607. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 045463. <br/><br/> Jacob Stoer hardcover books
