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CEPIO, Coriolanus (1425-93). Petri Mocenici imperatoris gesta. Venice: Bernhard Maler, Erhard Ratdolt, and Peter Löslein, 1477.
Chancery 4° (200 x 136mm). Collation: a-f8 g6 (a1 blank, a2r dedication to Marcantonio Morosini, a3r text, g5v colophon, g6 blank). 53 (of 54, without first blank) leaves. 23 lines. Type: 1:109R, a few words of Greek. Woodcut vine-work border to a2 (just shaved at fore-edge, strengthened with narrow strip), woodcut initials. English early 19th-century blue straight-grained morocco panelled in gilt and blind (very slightly faded at edges), orange endpapers, g.e. Provenance: contemporary marginal annotations in an italic hand (some lightly washed); C.W. Dyson Perrins (booklabel, sale Sotheby's 17 June 1946, no.81).
FIRST EDITION of this first-hand account of the Levantine expedition against the Turks (1470-74) following Negroponte. The author, the humanist nobleman Coriolano Cippico, accompanied the future Doge Pietro Mocenigo at the battle of Scutari, and he describes ancient monuments and their epigraphs as well as the capture of Smyrna, the Venetian protectorate of Cyprus, and Scutari. He takes great care in highlighting the Venetian victories under Mocenigo, in contrast to the earlier failure of Mocenigo's predecessor, Niccolò Canal, at Negroponte. This is probably the first appearance of the fine woodcut border surrounding the dedication; it was apparently printed separately from the type-page (see A. Vincent in Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, 1929, p.102). HC *4849; GW 6473; BMC V, 244 (IA. 10488-9); Goff C-378; Pellechet 3474; IDL 1206; IGI 2684; Sander 1912; Essling 254; Redgrave 5.
Chancery 4° (200 x 136mm). Collation: a-f8 g6 (a1 blank, a2r dedication to Marcantonio Morosini, a3r text, g5v colophon, g6 blank). 53 (of 54, without first blank) leaves. 23 lines. Type: 1:109R, a few words of Greek. Woodcut vine-work border to a2 (just shaved at fore-edge, strengthened with narrow strip), woodcut initials. English early 19th-century blue straight-grained morocco panelled in gilt and blind (very slightly faded at edges), orange endpapers, g.e. Provenance: contemporary marginal annotations in an italic hand (some lightly washed); C.W. Dyson Perrins (booklabel, sale Sotheby's 17 June 1946, no.81).
FIRST EDITION of this first-hand account of the Levantine expedition against the Turks (1470-74) following Negroponte. The author, the humanist nobleman Coriolano Cippico, accompanied the future Doge Pietro Mocenigo at the battle of Scutari, and he describes ancient monuments and their epigraphs as well as the capture of Smyrna, the Venetian protectorate of Cyprus, and Scutari. He takes great care in highlighting the Venetian victories under Mocenigo, in contrast to the earlier failure of Mocenigo's predecessor, Niccolò Canal, at Negroponte. This is probably the first appearance of the fine woodcut border surrounding the dedication; it was apparently printed separately from the type-page (see A. Vincent in Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, 1929, p.102). HC *4849; GW 6473; BMC V, 244 (IA. 10488-9); Goff C-378; Pellechet 3474; IDL 1206; IGI 2684; Sander 1912; Essling 254; Redgrave 5.