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PIUS II (Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, Pope, 1405-1464). Historia Bohemica. Rome: Johannes Schurener, de Bopardia, and Johannes Nicolai Hanheymer, de Oppenheym, for Joannes Aloisius Tuscanus, 10 January 1475.
Royal half-sheet 4° (272x197mm). Collation: [1-510 6-88] (1/1 blank, 1/2r preface by Pius II addressed to Alfonso d'Aragona, 1/3v text, 8/7v colophon, 8/8 blank). 74 leaves. 33-34 lines. Type 1a:101 (leaded to 107)R.. 4- to 6-line initial spaces, some with guide-letters. (Two tiny tears in final blank repaired.) Early 20th-century vellum over pastepaper boards. Provenance: contemporary marginal annotations and corrections.
FIRST EDITION. The colophon is here in the fullest version for this edition as cited in Pellechet only. It ends: Fauente Impressioni huius operis domino Iohanne Aloi/sio Tuscano aduocato consistoriali Memento mori, beneath which is a death's head. H *255; BMC IV, 56 (IB. 17755); Goff P-728; Oates 1409; Pellechet 177; IGI 7792
Royal half-sheet 4° (272x197mm). Collation: [1-510 6-88] (1/1 blank, 1/2r preface by Pius II addressed to Alfonso d'Aragona, 1/3v text, 8/7v colophon, 8/8 blank). 74 leaves. 33-34 lines. Type 1a:101 (leaded to 107)R.. 4- to 6-line initial spaces, some with guide-letters. (Two tiny tears in final blank repaired.) Early 20th-century vellum over pastepaper boards. Provenance: contemporary marginal annotations and corrections.
FIRST EDITION. The colophon is here in the fullest version for this edition as cited in Pellechet only. It ends: Fauente Impressioni huius operis domino Iohanne Aloi/sio Tuscano aduocato consistoriali Memento mori, beneath which is a death's head. H *255; BMC IV, 56 (IB. 17755); Goff P-728; Oates 1409; Pellechet 177; IGI 7792