![EUSEBIUS Caesariensis, Bishop of Caesarea (ca 260-ca 340). Historia ecclesiastica. Translated from Greek into Latin by Tyrannius Rufinus, (ca 345-410). Mantua: Johannes Schallus, [not before 15th] July 1479.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2001/NYR/2001_NYR_09880_0137_000(040344).jpg?w=1)
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EUSEBIUS Caesariensis, Bishop of Caesarea (ca 260-ca 340). Historia ecclesiastica. Translated from Greek into Latin by Tyrannius Rufinus, (ca 345-410). Mantua: Johannes Schallus, [not before 15th] July 1479.
Chancery 2o (307 x 205 mm). Collation: [18; 2-188 19-226.8]. 171 leaves (of 172; without the final blank). 34 lines. Catchwords on every page. Roman type 3:111. 2- to 6-line initial spaces, most with printed guide-letters. Lombard initials supplied in red and blue, some with delicate penwork, headings, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red. (Two internal tears on 1/1 reinforced on blank recto and affecting a few letters verso, some occasional light dustsoiling, otherwise fresh and crisp.)
Binding: contemporary South-German calf over unbevelled wooden boards, blind tooled with double fillets and two sizes of rosettes to a saltire design, central diamond filled with a rosette, the outer compartments edged with Kopfstempel and marked with curved double lines emanating from a central rosette forming a pattern of oak leaves in relief, evidence of clasps (rebacked, a few scuffs and some wear at extremities). Provenance: George Dunn (1865-1912) of Woolley Hall (Kelmscott Press bookplate) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia, 27 June 1941) -- donated to SMS 1941.
Fourth edition, the second printed in Italy, of the principal source for the early history of Christianity. This is the last of six books printed at the fifth Mantuan press. Schallus, a native of Hersfeld in Hessia, who called himself a doctor, and in one edition a "doctor artis Appollinee," printed five editions in Mantua in 1475, using gothic rotunda types related to Mentelin's. He then ceased printing, resurfacing briefly four years later with the present edition, whose roman typeface is identical to that of Johann Schreiber, active in Bologna in 1478 and 1479.
The dedication to Federico Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, is dated 15th July, 1479, and the printing must have been completed soon after. As here, a large number of copies of this edition have contemporary German provenances, indicating that Schallus may have used a German trading company for the book's distribution. BMC VII, 933 (IB. 30664-65); BSB-Ink. E-112; GW 9436; HC *6711; Harvard/Walsh 3341-42; Pr 6908; Goff E-127.
Chancery 2o (307 x 205 mm). Collation: [18; 2-188 19-226.8]. 171 leaves (of 172; without the final blank). 34 lines. Catchwords on every page. Roman type 3:111. 2- to 6-line initial spaces, most with printed guide-letters. Lombard initials supplied in red and blue, some with delicate penwork, headings, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red. (Two internal tears on 1/1 reinforced on blank recto and affecting a few letters verso, some occasional light dustsoiling, otherwise fresh and crisp.)
Binding: contemporary South-German calf over unbevelled wooden boards, blind tooled with double fillets and two sizes of rosettes to a saltire design, central diamond filled with a rosette, the outer compartments edged with Kopfstempel and marked with curved double lines emanating from a central rosette forming a pattern of oak leaves in relief, evidence of clasps (rebacked, a few scuffs and some wear at extremities). Provenance: George Dunn (1865-1912) of Woolley Hall (Kelmscott Press bookplate) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia, 27 June 1941) -- donated to SMS 1941.
Fourth edition, the second printed in Italy, of the principal source for the early history of Christianity. This is the last of six books printed at the fifth Mantuan press. Schallus, a native of Hersfeld in Hessia, who called himself a doctor, and in one edition a "doctor artis Appollinee," printed five editions in Mantua in 1475, using gothic rotunda types related to Mentelin's. He then ceased printing, resurfacing briefly four years later with the present edition, whose roman typeface is identical to that of Johann Schreiber, active in Bologna in 1478 and 1479.
The dedication to Federico Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, is dated 15th July, 1479, and the printing must have been completed soon after. As here, a large number of copies of this edition have contemporary German provenances, indicating that Schallus may have used a German trading company for the book's distribution. BMC VII, 933 (IB. 30664-65); BSB-Ink. E-112; GW 9436; HC *6711; Harvard/Walsh 3341-42; Pr 6908; Goff E-127.