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ROO, Gerardus de. Annales Rerum Belli Domique ab Austriacis Habspurgicae Gentis Principibus, à Rudolpho primo, usque ad Carolum V. Gestarum. Ed. Conradus Decius à Weydenberg. Innsbruck: Hans Baur, 1592.
2° (310 x 195 mm.). Full-page engraved portrait of the dedicatee Archduke Ferdinand, full-page engraved imperial genealogical tree, engraved and woodcut coats-of-arms. (Minor staining.) Contemporary Austrian or German binding, blind-tooled pigskin spine and corners over pasteboard, dark-stained vellum sides with blind fillets, (rubbed, corners worn). Provenance: Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (bookplate, 1844 Evans sale); George Dunn (bookplate).
Early example of a half binding, using different leather for spine and corners from the remainder of the covers. For a similar binding, but with paper covers, see Gruel's Manuel I, p. 76.
2° (310 x 195 mm.). Full-page engraved portrait of the dedicatee Archduke Ferdinand, full-page engraved imperial genealogical tree, engraved and woodcut coats-of-arms. (Minor staining.) Contemporary Austrian or German binding, blind-tooled pigskin spine and corners over pasteboard, dark-stained vellum sides with blind fillets, (rubbed, corners worn). Provenance: Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (bookplate, 1844 Evans sale); George Dunn (bookplate).
Early example of a half binding, using different leather for spine and corners from the remainder of the covers. For a similar binding, but with paper covers, see Gruel's Manuel I, p. 76.