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TACITUS. Der Römischen Kayser Historien... In welchen nit alleyn die Ding, so sich zu Rom begeben, sonder auch anderer Nation, sonderlich aber der Teutschen geschicht, erzelst werden. Item das Büchlein von der alten Teutschen brauch und leben. Translation from Latin by Jakob Moltzer, known as Micyllus. Mainz: Ivo Schöffer, 10 March 1535.
2° (300 x 200mm). Collation: A-Z a-z Aa-Zz AA-CC6 DD4 EE-GG6. Woodcut printer's device on title and with a larger version on verso of final leaf, 1 full-page woodcut, woodcut surround to section title, occasional large woodcut initials, woodcut tailpiece of a lion (repeated 5 times). (Short marginal tear in C4.) Contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, pastedowns from a 15th-century liturgical manuscript (neatly rebacked, old spine laid down, clasps lacking). Provenance: Reinhardt Graff zu Binningen (inscription on title). FIRST EDITION OF THE ANNALS IN GERMAN. Worstbrock 403.
2° (300 x 200mm). Collation: A-Z a-z Aa-Zz AA-CC6 DD4 EE-GG6. Woodcut printer's device on title and with a larger version on verso of final leaf, 1 full-page woodcut, woodcut surround to section title, occasional large woodcut initials, woodcut tailpiece of a lion (repeated 5 times). (Short marginal tear in C4.) Contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, pastedowns from a 15th-century liturgical manuscript (neatly rebacked, old spine laid down, clasps lacking). Provenance: Reinhardt Graff zu Binningen (inscription on title). FIRST EDITION OF THE ANNALS IN GERMAN. Worstbrock 403.