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LIVIUS, Titus. Romische Historie uss Tito livio gezogen. Translated into German by Bernhard Schöfferlin and Ivo Wittich. Mainz: Johannes Schöffer, 1505.
2° (270 x 185mm). Collation: *6 **6 a8 b-o6 p4 A8 B-R6 Aa8 Bb-Zz6 Aaa-Nnn6. 237 large woodcut illustrations, one full-page. (Title inserted on a stub and torn in lower blank corner; outer margin of h8 strengthened; tear in p1 repaired without loss of text; occasional minor staining; lacking blank leaves p6 and R6.) Later vellum. Provenance: Inscribed on title 'Questo Libro e di Benedetto Cambagii e de sua afezionati Amici. 1553'.
FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN. The book is dedicated to the Emperor Maximilian. The preface to part I and II is by Schöfferlin and to Part III by Wittich. Roth, Die Mainzer Buchdruckerfamilie Schoeffer (1898) 16,2; Graesse IV, 232; Adams L-1357; BL STC German 521; Worstbrock 245.
2° (270 x 185mm). Collation: *6 **6 a8 b-o6 p4 A8 B-R6 Aa8 Bb-Zz6 Aaa-Nnn6. 237 large woodcut illustrations, one full-page. (Title inserted on a stub and torn in lower blank corner; outer margin of h8 strengthened; tear in p1 repaired without loss of text; occasional minor staining; lacking blank leaves p6 and R6.) Later vellum. Provenance: Inscribed on title 'Questo Libro e di Benedetto Cambagii e de sua afezionati Amici. 1553'.
FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN. The book is dedicated to the Emperor Maximilian. The preface to part I and II is by Schöfferlin and to Part III by Wittich. Roth, Die Mainzer Buchdruckerfamilie Schoeffer (1898) 16,2; Graesse IV, 232; Adams L-1357; BL STC German 521; Worstbrock 245.