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TORTELLIUS, Johannes (1400-1466). Orthographia, edited by Pyrrhus Pincius. - Georgius VALLA (d. 1500). Tractatus de orthographia. Venice: Philippus Pincius, 12 April 1493.
Chancery 2° (301 x 205mm). Roman and Greek type, initial spaces with printed guide-letters. (Occasional light staining and browning.) 19th-century half vellum (hinges splitting, a little worming at lower joint, spine label chipped).
FIRST EDITION of Valla's De Orthographia and the first edition of Tortellius to be edited by Pyrrhus Pincius. HC *15572=15577; BMC V, 494; Polain(B) 3796; BSB-Ink T-390; Goff T-401.
Chancery 2° (301 x 205mm). Roman and Greek type, initial spaces with printed guide-letters. (Occasional light staining and browning.) 19th-century half vellum (hinges splitting, a little worming at lower joint, spine label chipped).
FIRST EDITION of Valla's De Orthographia and the first edition of Tortellius to be edited by Pyrrhus Pincius. HC *15572=15577; BMC V, 494; Polain(B) 3796; BSB-Ink T-390; Goff T-401.
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