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PLATINA, BARTHOLOMAEUS SACCHI DE. Vitae pontificum. Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 11 June 1479.
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PLATINA, BARTHOLOMAEUS SACCHI DE. Vitae pontificum. Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 11 June 1479.
Chancery folio, 306 x 209 mm. (12 x 8 1/4 in.), nineteenth-century calf, covers with blind roll-tooled neoclassic border, rebacked, worn and rubbed, inner hinges cracked, very light spotting to first leaf, occasional minor marginal staining, worming to last 40 leaves.
Collation: a10 b-o8 p6 q-y8 z10 &8 aa-ee8 ff6. 240 leaves, unfoliated. Type: 8*:109R3 (text), 110Gk (one letter on c5v). 52 lines. Spaces for 7-, 4- and 3-line initials, supplied throughout in liquid gold on a blue ground within ornamental border in siena or orange.
FIRST EDITION, an attractive copy with wide margins.
HC 13045*; Polain (B) 3186; IGI 7857; BMC V 235; Goff P-768.
Provenance: Numerous marginalia in a sixteenth-century hand, eighteenth-century foliation and a few later marginalia -- Unidentified armorial bookplate -- William Gordon, armorial bookplate -- Boies Penrose II, armorial bookplate.
Chancery folio, 306 x 209 mm. (12 x 8 1/4 in.), nineteenth-century calf, covers with blind roll-tooled neoclassic border, rebacked, worn and rubbed, inner hinges cracked, very light spotting to first leaf, occasional minor marginal staining, worming to last 40 leaves.
Collation: a10 b-o8 p6 q-y8 z10 &8 aa-ee8 ff6. 240 leaves, unfoliated. Type: 8*:109R3 (text), 110Gk (one letter on c5v). 52 lines. Spaces for 7-, 4- and 3-line initials, supplied throughout in liquid gold on a blue ground within ornamental border in siena or orange.
FIRST EDITION, an attractive copy with wide margins.
HC 13045*; Polain (B) 3186; IGI 7857; BMC V 235; Goff P-768.
Provenance: Numerous marginalia in a sixteenth-century hand, eighteenth-century foliation and a few later marginalia -- Unidentified armorial bookplate -- William Gordon, armorial bookplate -- Boies Penrose II, armorial bookplate.