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LAETUS, Pomponius (1428-97). Romanae historiae compendium. - Marcus Antonius SABELLICUS. Pomponii Vita. Venice: Bernardinus Venetus, de Vitalibus, 23 April 1499.
Chancery 4° (204 x 147 mm). Collation: a-p4 (a1r title, a1v blank, a2r prefatory letter by Leto to Francesco Borgia, a3r text, p1r Life of Leto by Sabellicus addressed to Antonius Maurocenus, p4r tetrastich by Palladius Soranus, colophon, p4v blank). 60 leaves. 28 lines and headline. Type 3:111R, Greek. Woodcut white-vine initials. (Small wormholes in initial quires affecting a few letters in 3 leaves, slight marginal staining.) Modern limp vellum, title lettered in gilt on spine.
Provenance: contemporary marginal annotations in a neat humanist hand (very slightly trimmed); Aemilius Vezalius Aretinus (early inscription and contents on title, indicating it was previously part of a Sammelband).
FIRST EDITION, published posthumously. In his life of Leto Sabellicus names the publisher of the edition as Democritus of Terracina. Sabellicus had previously published a dedicatory letter to Democritus in his Enneades, printed one year earlier by the same printer (see lot 87). Bernardinus de Vitalibus had also printed in 1498 an edition of epigrams by Palladius, whose verses appear at the end of Sabellicus's life of Leto. The elegant white-vine woodcut initials which first appeared in the Enneades are used again here.
HC *9830; BMC V, 549 (IA. 24343); IGI 7987; Pellechet Ms 7000; Goff L-24.
Chancery 4° (204 x 147 mm). Collation: a-p4 (a1r title, a1v blank, a2r prefatory letter by Leto to Francesco Borgia, a3r text, p1r Life of Leto by Sabellicus addressed to Antonius Maurocenus, p4r tetrastich by Palladius Soranus, colophon, p4v blank). 60 leaves. 28 lines and headline. Type 3:111R, Greek. Woodcut white-vine initials. (Small wormholes in initial quires affecting a few letters in 3 leaves, slight marginal staining.) Modern limp vellum, title lettered in gilt on spine.
Provenance: contemporary marginal annotations in a neat humanist hand (very slightly trimmed); Aemilius Vezalius Aretinus (early inscription and contents on title, indicating it was previously part of a Sammelband).
FIRST EDITION, published posthumously. In his life of Leto Sabellicus names the publisher of the edition as Democritus of Terracina. Sabellicus had previously published a dedicatory letter to Democritus in his Enneades, printed one year earlier by the same printer (see lot 87). Bernardinus de Vitalibus had also printed in 1498 an edition of epigrams by Palladius, whose verses appear at the end of Sabellicus's life of Leto. The elegant white-vine woodcut initials which first appeared in the Enneades are used again here.
HC *9830; BMC V, 549 (IA. 24343); IGI 7987; Pellechet Ms 7000; Goff L-24.