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PHILELPHUS, FRANCESCUS. Epistolae. Venice: [Bernardinus Benalius], 15 January 1493/4. Folio. 94 leaves, the last blank, with foliation and signatures. Types: 10:80R (second state); 80 Gk. 60 lines and headline. Spaces for initials with guide letters. [Bound with:] Orationes et opuscula. Venice: Philippus Pincius, 1 June 1496. Folio. 80 leaves, the last blank, with foliation and signatures. Types: 8:81R; 15:80Rb, quire a, sheets b1,2; 100 Gk. 60 lines and foliation. Spaces for initials with guide letters, woodcut capitals in the last quire. A close reprint of the 1492 edition. HC 12942* and 12925*; Proctor 4882 and 5312; BMC V 375 and 497; Goff P-594 and P-611.
2 works in one volume, 308 x 206mm. (12 1/8 x 8 1/8in.), eighteenth-century calf in the Cambridge style, rebacked, lower cover scraped, extremities rubbed, first and last quires disbound, a few worm tracks in the first work with very minor text loss in quires i-l, marginal wormhole to the first few leaves, occasional slight staining, some mostly marginal dampstaining, a few leaves browned.
Provenance: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ownership inscriptions of Bernardus Albertinelli and James Wyld on first 2 leaves; early annotations on title-page, scattered early marginalia (including a drawing on fol. o5); George Milne.
2 works in one volume, 308 x 206mm. (12 1/8 x 8 1/8in.), eighteenth-century calf in the Cambridge style, rebacked, lower cover scraped, extremities rubbed, first and last quires disbound, a few worm tracks in the first work with very minor text loss in quires i-l, marginal wormhole to the first few leaves, occasional slight staining, some mostly marginal dampstaining, a few leaves browned.
Provenance: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ownership inscriptions of Bernardus Albertinelli and James Wyld on first 2 leaves; early annotations on title-page, scattered early marginalia (including a drawing on fol. o5); George Milne.