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FORESTI, JACOPO FILIPPO, DA BERGAMO. Supplementum Supplementi Chronicarum...usque... Annum 1510. Venice: G. dei Rusconi, 1513. Folio, 302 x 204 mm. (11 7/8 x 8 in.), 18th-century calf, joints and head of spine restored, quite worn, upper inner hinge split, small stain to lower margins, some faint dampstaining to foremargins, small stain to q8r obscuring about 6 letters. Title printed in red and black with the first word in decorative interlocking caps, with woodcut vignette and seven-part woodcut border, numerous text woodcuts, woodcut initials, printer's device at end. Adams F-750; Alden & Landis 513/3; Essling 349; Harrisse 73; Sabin 25086; Sander 923. Fourth edition to contain the account of the discovery of America, under the year 1493, on fol. 328v. The woodcuts appeared in previous editions (cf. Mortimer Italian 195). Scattered contemporary marginalia, corrections and underlinings; several annotations on lower flyleaf.