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LIVIUS, Titus. Romische historien Titi livii mit etlichen newen Translationen, so kurtzuerschienen jaren im hohenthum Styfft zu Mentz im latein erfunden und vorhyn nit mer gesehen. Translated into German by Bernhard Schöfferlin, Ivo Wittich and Nicolaus Fabri Carbach. Mainz: Johannes Schöffer, 1523.
2° (300 x 204mm). Collation: i6 a4 b-o6 p4 A8 B-R6 Aa8 Bb-Ee6 Ff8 [1-16] Gg4 Hh-Zz6 Aaa-Nnn6 Ooo4 Ppp6 16 28. 5 historiated woodcut title borders, approximately 250 woodcut illustrations, some full-page. (Lacks final blank, light occasional soiling, inner margins of first quire strengthened.) 16th-century blindtooled pigskin over wooden boards, spine with four raised bands (rebacked in antique style pigskin, clasps lacking). Provenance: William Davignon (19th-century bookplate).
Fourth edition in German, containing the text of the previous editions with short prefaces by Schöfferlin and Wittich, with two additional books by Livius (xxiii and xl) first published in Latin in 1518 translated by Carbach who has added a postscript on ff 419-20. Most of the woodcuts in this edition are new, from blocks specially made for this text. Roth. Die Mainzer Buchdruckerfamilie Schoeffer 63, 102; Adams L-1358; Worstbrock 248.
2° (300 x 204mm). Collation: i6 a4 b-o6 p4 A8 B-R6 Aa8 Bb-Ee6 Ff8 [1-16] Gg4 Hh-Zz6 Aaa-Nnn6 Ooo4 Ppp6 16 28. 5 historiated woodcut title borders, approximately 250 woodcut illustrations, some full-page. (Lacks final blank, light occasional soiling, inner margins of first quire strengthened.) 16th-century blindtooled pigskin over wooden boards, spine with four raised bands (rebacked in antique style pigskin, clasps lacking). Provenance: William Davignon (19th-century bookplate).
Fourth edition in German, containing the text of the previous editions with short prefaces by Schöfferlin and Wittich, with two additional books by Livius (xxiii and xl) first published in Latin in 1518 translated by Carbach who has added a postscript on ff 419-20. Most of the woodcuts in this edition are new, from blocks specially made for this text. Roth. Die Mainzer Buchdruckerfamilie Schoeffer 63, 102; Adams L-1358; Worstbrock 248.