APPIANUS (ca. 100 - ca. 170). Historia Romana . Latin translation of Petrus Candidus Decembrius (1399-1477) from the Greek. Venice: Bernhard Maler, Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Royal 4° (280 x 210 mm.). Collation: a-i 1 0 (a1 blank, a2 translator's dedication to Pope Nicholas V, a3-6 author's introduction incipit : Romanorum historiam scribere adorsus, a7 r -e9 r Libycus , c2 r left blank by the editor to indicate lost text, e9 v -h3 r Syrius , h3 v -i10 v Parthicus ); k-n 8 o 1 0 ( Mithridaticus , o10 r colophon, o10 v blank). 132 leaves. Type 1:109R, 32 lines, marginalia. 9-line white-on-black woodcut initials, white-on-black woodcut vine-branch border on a2 r (first use of the block). (Some small wormholes at beginning and end, slightly spotted in places.) 18th-century English red morocco gilt (rebacked with original spine). Provenance : Worms, Capuchins (inscription, a few manuscript notes); bookplate removed. FIRST EDITION. Book 3, Parthicus , is a later Byzantine compilation. Part II, De Bellis Civilibus , was published at the same time by Maler and his partners, and was probably marketed both together with and separately from Historia Romana ; its first appearance in print was also at Venice, with Wendelin von Speyer in 1472 (GW 2293). H *1307 (II); GW 2290 (I); BMC V, 244 (IB. 20486); Goff A-928 (I); BSB-Ink A-651 (I); Sander 482 (I); Redgrave 3.
APPIANUS (ca. 100 - ca. 170). Historia Romana . Latin translation of Petrus Candidus Decembrius (1399-1477) from the Greek. Venice: Bernhard Maler, Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Royal 4° (280 x 210 mm.). Collation: a-i 1 0 (a1 blank, a2 translator's dedication to Pope Nicholas V, a3-6 author's introduction incipit : Romanorum historiam scribere adorsus, a7 r -e9 r Libycus , c2 r left blank by the editor to indicate lost text, e9 v -h3 r Syrius , h3 v -i10 v Parthicus ); k-n 8 o 1 0 ( Mithridaticus , o10 r colophon, o10 v blank). 132 leaves. Type 1:109R, 32 lines, marginalia. 9-line white-on-black woodcut initials, white-on-black woodcut vine-branch border on a2 r (first use of the block). (Some small wormholes at beginning and end, slightly spotted in places.) 18th-century English red morocco gilt (rebacked with original spine). Provenance : Worms, Capuchins (inscription, a few manuscript notes); bookplate removed. FIRST EDITION. Book 3, Parthicus , is a later Byzantine compilation. Part II, De Bellis Civilibus , was published at the same time by Maler and his partners, and was probably marketed both together with and separately from Historia Romana ; its first appearance in print was also at Venice, with Wendelin von Speyer in 1472 (GW 2293). H *1307 (II); GW 2290 (I); BMC V, 244 (IB. 20486); Goff A-928 (I); BSB-Ink A-651 (I); Sander 482 (I); Redgrave 3.
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