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HERODOTUS (fl. 5th century BC). Historiae , translated from Greek into Latin by Laurentius Valla, edited by Antonius Mancinellus. Venice: Johannes & Gregorius de Gregoriis, 8 March 1494 [actually not before 30 March 1494]. Median 2° (300 x 197mm). A8 (A1r title: Herodoti Halicarnasei libri novem , A1v blank, A2r-8r index, A8v editor's letter to Nicolaus Rubeus dated 29 March, 1494, three weeks later than the colophon); a-d8 e-x6 (a1r incipit with illustration and border, x6r colophon and sheet register, x6v blank). 142 leaves. Type 26:110R. 45 lines and headline. Woodcut illustration 78 x 113 mm., woodcut border 300 x 197 mm. Initial spaces with guide-letters. (Title bound at end, title and A8v slightly soiled, woodcut border on a1r slightly cropped at lower margin and creased at corner, some marginal waterstains to quire a.) Old calf-backed paper-covered wooden boards (recently rebacked, preserving an 18th-century morocco label). Provenance : Io. Bap. For[tunatus?] (ownership stamp dated 1630 on A8r, some marginalia possibly in his hand) -- John Jackson of Warrington (bookplate). This third edition, preceded by those of 1474 (Venice: Jacobus Rubeus) and 1475 (Rome: Arnoldus Pannartz), is celebrated for having one of the finest woodcut borders of the 15th century. The black-on-white border shows Renaissance ornament and two white-ground insets, the upper of a faun preparing to sacrifice a goat and the lower Hercules at the parting of the ways. It frames a larger cut of the crowning of Herodotus by Apollo and the incipit. Essling saw the hand of the Poliphili Master in these fluid cuts. HC *8472; BMC V, 345 (IB. 21058); Bod.-Inc. H-056; CIBN H-56; IGI 4694; Sander 3376; Essling 735; Hind p. 505; Goff H-90.
HERODOTUS (fl. 5th century BC). Historiae , translated from Greek into Latin by Laurentius Valla, edited by Antonius Mancinellus. Venice: Johannes & Gregorius de Gregoriis, 8 March 1494 [actually not before 30 March 1494]. Median 2° (300 x 197mm). A8 (A1r title: Herodoti Halicarnasei libri novem , A1v blank, A2r-8r index, A8v editor's letter to Nicolaus Rubeus dated 29 March, 1494, three weeks later than the colophon); a-d8 e-x6 (a1r incipit with illustration and border, x6r colophon and sheet register, x6v blank). 142 leaves. Type 26:110R. 45 lines and headline. Woodcut illustration 78 x 113 mm., woodcut border 300 x 197 mm. Initial spaces with guide-letters. (Title bound at end, title and A8v slightly soiled, woodcut border on a1r slightly cropped at lower margin and creased at corner, some marginal waterstains to quire a.) Old calf-backed paper-covered wooden boards (recently rebacked, preserving an 18th-century morocco label). Provenance : Io. Bap. For[tunatus?] (ownership stamp dated 1630 on A8r, some marginalia possibly in his hand) -- John Jackson of Warrington (bookplate). This third edition, preceded by those of 1474 (Venice: Jacobus Rubeus) and 1475 (Rome: Arnoldus Pannartz), is celebrated for having one of the finest woodcut borders of the 15th century. The black-on-white border shows Renaissance ornament and two white-ground insets, the upper of a faun preparing to sacrifice a goat and the lower Hercules at the parting of the ways. It frames a larger cut of the crowning of Herodotus by Apollo and the incipit. Essling saw the hand of the Poliphili Master in these fluid cuts. HC *8472; BMC V, 345 (IB. 21058); Bod.-Inc. H-056; CIBN H-56; IGI 4694; Sander 3376; Essling 735; Hind p. 505; Goff H-90.