[Romische Historie] Titi Livii defl aller redsprechsten und hochber¸mpsten geschi by LIVY - 1533

Profusely Illustrated with Woodcuts [LIVY]. CARBACH, N.F., [translator]. [Romische Historie] Titi Livii defl aller redsprechsten und hochber¸mpsten geschi. Roemische Historien mit etlichen newen translation ausz dem Latein so kurtz verschinen jaren zu Meyntz im hohen Thumbstifft sampt nun dem vierdten theyl der Roemischen Historien Mainz: Johannes Schoeffer, 1533. Fourth German edition. Four parts in one folio volume. (12 x 7 5/8 inches; 308 x 195 mm). [14] 1-545, [1, colophon] leaves. With over 250 woodcuts in the text (with some repeat). Main title-page with headpiece and three separate title-pages with woodcuts for the other three parts, but included in the pagination. Each of these pages are demarked with a small metal marker attached to the fore-edge. Contemporary pigskin over beveled wooden boards. Boards are ruled and stamped in blind. Old ink manuscript for title on spine. Back board with metal remnants of two clasps which are no longer intact. Old ink notes on bottom margin of title-page, not affecting text. "V.F." stamped in title-page and top edge of text block. Boards soiled and rubbed. Edges of text block dusty. But internally very clean. Overall a very good copy. "The woodcuts date back to earlier Schˆffer editions, they have been ascribed to the painter Conrad Faber of Kreuznach, who is regarded a master of landscape painting." (Ketterer Kunst) USTC, 698600, (the following all regarding the first edition) Adams L-1357. BM p. 521. Muther 645. HBS 66909. $6,000