EUSEBIUS CAESARIENSIS. De evangelica praeparatione. Translated by Georgius Trapezuntius. Venice: Bernardinus Benalius, 31 May 1497. Collation: a10, b8,c6, d-m8, n-o6. 108 leaves. Roman type, 45 lines and headline, capital spaces with guide-letters, woodcut of Eusebius on recto of f.108. Hain 6706; BMC V, 376; GW 9444; Goff E-122.

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EUSEBIUS CAESARIENSIS. De evangelica praeparatione. Translated by Georgius Trapezuntius. Venice: Bernardinus Benalius, 31 May 1497. Collation: a10, b8,c6, d-m8, n-o6. 108 leaves. Roman type, 45 lines and headline, capital spaces with guide-letters, woodcut of Eusebius on recto of f.108. Hain 6706; BMC V, 376; GW 9444; Goff E-122.

Bound with: DIODORUS SICULUS. Bibliothecae historiae libri VI. Translated by Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini. Venice: Philippus Pincius, 20 November, 1493. Collation: a-h6, i4. 52 leaves including the final blank. Roman type, 60 lines and headline, capital spaces with guide-letters. (Published with Lucianus Vera Historia, as A8, but this part not present.) Hain 10260; BMC V, 495; Goff L-328 (all under Lucianus).

Bound with: JUSTINUS. Epitomae in Trogi Pompeii historias. With LUCIUS FLORUS. Epitome. Edited by Marcus Antonius Sabellicus. [Venice: Joannes Rubeis Vercellensis, after 1489/90]. Collation: a-i6. 54 leaves. Roman type, 61 lines, capital spaces left blank. Hain 9653; BMC V, 421; Goff J-620.

Three works in one volume, 2° (312 x 207mm). (Titles to each work mounted on guards, very minor worming to the first and third works.) Contemporary Italian calf over wooden boards, tooled in blind, outer border of a triangular tool containing a wyvern within filets, surrounding a central lozenge and diagonal rules, early title label on lower cover, other labels on spine, hasp for a chain on lower cover, clasps, one lacking (varnished, foot of spine worn, some repair).

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