Historiae Principis Decades Tres Cum Dimidia.Beati Rhenani & Sigismundi Gelenii adiunctae Annotationes. Addita est Chronologia Henrici Glareani
by LIVIUS, Titus
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Basel: In Officina Hervagiana [Per Ioannem Hervagium], 1539., 1539. 7 Parts in 1. folio. pp. 2 p.l., 63, [5]; 244; 243; 211; 91, [1]; [39], [1]; [96]. woodcut printer's device on first title, on title & at end of Book 5, on title & at end of the Chronologia, & at the end of the text. historiated woodcut initials. A nice copy, bound in 17th century speckled calf, paneled in gilt, rebacked, preserving endpapers & spine label, corners renewed (very occasional marginal stains). engraved armorial bookplate of Algernon Capell, [second] Earl of Essex, dated 1701, on title. A handsome folio edition, based on the Basel Froben editions of 1531 and 1535, the former being the first to incorporate the first five books of the Fifth Decade (Books 41-45), sourced from a manuscript discovered by German humanist Simon Grynaeus [1493-1541] in the Benedictine abbey of Lorsch in 1527. This edition reprints the 1531 dedicatory preface by Erasmus, and the improved chronology by Swiss humanist, Heinrich Glareanus [1488-1563], and also incorporates the revisions of Beatus Rhenanus and Sigismund Galenius, which were added in the 1535 edition. Adams L1332. BM STC German p. 521 (5 Parts). Graesse IV 228n.. Hardcover. Very Good.
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- Title
- Historiae Principis Decades Tres Cum Dimidia.Beati Rhenani & Sigismundi Gelenii adiunctae Annotationes. Addita est Chronologia Henrici Glareani
- Author
- LIVIUS, Titus
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- Basel: In Officina Hervagiana [Per Ioannem Hervagium], 1539.
- Date Published
- 1539
- Keywords
- 16TH-CENTURY CLASSICS
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- 16th-Century;
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