FORESTI BERGOMENSIS (Jacobus Philippus): Nouissime hystoria omnium repercussiones: que Supplementum supplementi Cronicarum nuncupantur, [2H3: Venice, per Albertinum [Vercellensem] de Lissona, 1503], folio, title with woodcut coat of arms of the dedicatee, Antonio Pallavicino, 95 woodcuts including 47 repetitions, full-page illustrations of the creation of Eve, the expulsion from Eden, the death of Abel and the Tower of Abel, the other illustrations conisting of city views in several sizes, opening page of Book One with elaborate woodcut border, geographical diagram on a7, some large white initials with flowers and foliage, initial spaces with guide letters (title holed with slight loss, final leaves wormed slightly affecting text, lacking final leaf 2I10, blank), 17th-century vellum [Adams F748 (University Library copy also lacking final blank); Brunet I, 787; Mortimer, Italian Books I, 195; Sander 920]. (5)

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FORESTI BERGOMENSIS (Jacobus Philippus): Nouissime hystoria omnium repercussiones: que Supplementum supplementi Cronicarum nuncupantur, [2H3: Venice, per Albertinum [Vercellensem] de Lissona, 1503], folio, title with woodcut coat of arms of the dedicatee, Antonio Pallavicino, 95 woodcuts including 47 repetitions, full-page illustrations of the creation of Eve, the expulsion from Eden, the death of Abel and the Tower of Abel, the other illustrations conisting of city views in several sizes, opening page of Book One with elaborate woodcut border, geographical diagram on a7, some large white initials with flowers and foliage, initial spaces with guide letters (title holed with slight loss, final leaves wormed slightly affecting text, lacking final leaf 2I10, blank), 17th-century vellum [Adams F748 (University Library copy also lacking final blank); Brunet I, 787; Mortimer, Italian Books I, 195; Sander 920]. (5)

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The fifth illustrated edition of Foresti's Chronicles to be printed in Italy, the first in the 16th-century. Bernadino Benalio, printer of the first illustrated edition in 1486, was also the printer of the first edition, Venice, 1483. 'Most of the small blocks used here by Albertino, the Tower of Babel, and the large views except for Milan are in the 1490 edition. THE LARGE VIEW OF MILAN IS NEW ... LIPMANN BELIEVES THE VIEW OF ROME TO BE THE OLDEST KNOWN ... The invention of printing is recorded by Foresti under the year 1458 with a note that some believe the inventor to be Gutenberg, others Johann Fust or Nicolas Jenson. New to this edition is an account of the discovery of America under the year 1493' (Mortimer).

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