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LACTANTIUS, Lucius Coelius Firmianus, Opera. Venice, Andrea de Paltasichis and Boninus de Boninis of Ragusa, 1478
Folio. (213) leaves (signatures: a2–9, b–d8, e10, f–m8, M8, N6, n–r8, s–t6, u–x8, y6, z8, &8, £10). Lacking leaf a10 (table); a1 (blank) not preserved. Early 19th-century half blond calf, smooth spine decorated with red long-grain morocco title label. Hinges restored, rubbing on spine, corners worn, small marginal dampstains, worming, slight foxing on the first…
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Tibullus, Catullus, Propertius cum comento (sic). [Elegiae, Carmina, Elegiae].
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Venice, Simone Bevilacqua, June 26, 1493. Folio, modern vellum, (157) f. (signature: a-c8, d-e6, f-s8, t-u6, x5, without final blank). Beautiful Venetian incunable printing of Catullus and the Latin elegiac poets, with the commentary of Antonio Partenio. A precious copy annotated by two enlightened readers: one contemporary to the edition and the other from the mid-sixteenth century. The…
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DIONYSIUS PERIEGETES, Cosmographia sive de situ orbis habitabilis, Venice, Bernhard Maler, Erhard Ratdolt, and Peter Löslein, 1477.
Quarto, (41) ff. (a-d⁸, e¹⁰). 18th-century vellum binding, smooth spine with gilt title and date (the last blank leaf not preserved, small losses to the vellum on the spine, and a snag at the top of the lower board; slightly trimmed margins after the 18th-century rebinding, affecting notably the coat of arms where the base…
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Incunable – 1499 Book of Hours – Hore beate Marie ad usum Cabilonensem – Thielman Kerver
Incunable – 1499 – Complete Book-of-Hours for the use of Chalon-sur-Saône by Thielman Kerver “Hore beate Marie ad usum Cabilonensem” -Printed in Paris at the Sign of the Unicorn by Thielman Kerver for Hugues Pageot of Dijon on 7th October 1499 -Almanac for 1497-1520 -124 pages (of 124 – Complete): a-p8 q4 – printed on paper. -18th Century…