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March 1521
LIVY. Librorum epitomae. -Lucius Annaeus FLORUS (fl. 2nd cent. A.D.) Epitoma in Titum Livium de gestis Romanorum. -POLYBIUS (fl. 2nd cent. B.C.) Historiae. Lat. tr. from Gk. Nicolaus Perottus (1430-80). Aldine 8° (161 x 101mm). Collation: AA-GG8 (title with device 6, Livy); aaaa-hhhh8 iiii4 (divisional title, Franc. Asolano's dedication to Raimondo Torriani, Florus); kkkk-zzzz Aa-Qq8 Rr4 (divisional title, Asolano's preface to the reader, Polybius, device 7). 368 leaves. Italic type 1:80. 30 lines and headline. Initial-spaces with guide-letters.
BINDING: contemporary Bolognese blind-tooled deep-brown goatskin, arabesque border on sides, flower tool in central panel and palmettes at the corners, compartments of spine diapered, blue edges, (spine-ends restored, slight rubbing, ties gone). PROVENANCE: Enrico Bissari (poet, editor of Poesie italiane di rimatori viventi, Venice: 1717), typographical bookplate, the manuscript marginalia are presumably his.
FIRST ALDINE EDITION of the epitomes and Florus, second Aldine edition of Polybius. The book was issued and sold as vol. 4 in the series of Livy's history of Rome, as well as on its own. It comprises the epitomized Livian tradition (including the abridgements of the lost Decades), Florus's abridgement of the history of Roman wars up to Augustus (usually described as an epitome of Livy, but sometimes at variance with him), and Polybius's universal history of his own time, which was an important source for Livy. Adams L-1322; Hoffmann III, 273; Murphy 173; R 90:1
LIVY. Librorum epitomae. -Lucius Annaeus FLORUS (fl. 2nd cent. A.D.) Epitoma in Titum Livium de gestis Romanorum. -POLYBIUS (fl. 2nd cent. B.C.) Historiae. Lat. tr. from Gk. Nicolaus Perottus (1430-80). Aldine 8° (161 x 101mm). Collation: AA-GG8 (title with device 6, Livy); aaaa-hhhh8 iiii4 (divisional title, Franc. Asolano's dedication to Raimondo Torriani, Florus); kkkk-zzzz Aa-Qq8 Rr4 (divisional title, Asolano's preface to the reader, Polybius, device 7). 368 leaves. Italic type 1:80. 30 lines and headline. Initial-spaces with guide-letters.
BINDING: contemporary Bolognese blind-tooled deep-brown goatskin, arabesque border on sides, flower tool in central panel and palmettes at the corners, compartments of spine diapered, blue edges, (spine-ends restored, slight rubbing, ties gone). PROVENANCE: Enrico Bissari (poet, editor of Poesie italiane di rimatori viventi, Venice: 1717), typographical bookplate, the manuscript marginalia are presumably his.
FIRST ALDINE EDITION of the epitomes and Florus, second Aldine edition of Polybius. The book was issued and sold as vol. 4 in the series of Livy's history of Rome, as well as on its own. It comprises the epitomized Livian tradition (including the abridgements of the lost Decades), Florus's abridgement of the history of Roman wars up to Augustus (usually described as an epitome of Livy, but sometimes at variance with him), and Polybius's universal history of his own time, which was an important source for Livy. Adams L-1322; Hoffmann III, 273; Murphy 173; R 90:1