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SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, Caius (75-160). Commentationes conditae a Philippo Beroaldo in Suetonium Tranquillum. Venice: Philippo Pincio, 18 February 1510.
2° (315 x 212 mm). Collation: AA10 BB4 a-z8 & \\j \\g8 A-Q8 R6. 356 leaves, R6 blank. Roman and Greek type, text with commentary surround. Title woodcut depicting the birth of Caesar, repeated on a1r, and 72 smaller woodcuts (including a few repeats), white-on-black woodcut ornamental initials, a few initial spaces with guide letters. (Two small wormholes through first 20 leaves, several wormholes affecting last 35 leaves, occasional light dampstain to extreme outer margins.) Contemporary German quarter blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, with floral stamps and lozenge and floral roll-tools, two brass catches (lacking clasps, minor worming, small stain to upper cover).
Provenance: shelfmarks 30 and 547 inked on fore-edge; F. Z. M. Fr. Ritt(er) v. Hauslar, 19th-century armorial library stamp in lower corner of title; 19th-century bibliographical notes in German pencilled on front pastedown.
Adams S-2028; Essling 209; Sander 7144.
2° (315 x 212 mm). Collation: AA10 BB4 a-z8 & \\j \\g8 A-Q8 R6. 356 leaves, R6 blank. Roman and Greek type, text with commentary surround. Title woodcut depicting the birth of Caesar, repeated on a1r, and 72 smaller woodcuts (including a few repeats), white-on-black woodcut ornamental initials, a few initial spaces with guide letters. (Two small wormholes through first 20 leaves, several wormholes affecting last 35 leaves, occasional light dampstain to extreme outer margins.) Contemporary German quarter blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, with floral stamps and lozenge and floral roll-tools, two brass catches (lacking clasps, minor worming, small stain to upper cover).
Provenance: shelfmarks 30 and 547 inked on fore-edge; F. Z. M. Fr. Ritt(er) v. Hauslar, 19th-century armorial library stamp in lower corner of title; 19th-century bibliographical notes in German pencilled on front pastedown.
Adams S-2028; Essling 209; Sander 7144.