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LIVIUS, Titus

Dat is/ de Roemsche historie of Gesten/ [...] waer wt niet alleene alle weereltlike staten tot vromicheyt en[de] ridderlike manlike feyte[n] beweget en[de] gedwonge[n]/ maer oock alle andere staten tot grooter recreatien en[de]) ghenuechten des herte[n] g
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Jan Grapheus
1541
€1.000 - €1.600

Folio (31,5 x 19,5 cm), [14], CCCCCLXVII (= 567) bladen, gotische tekst, vier titelpagina's met houtsneden, met 232 houtsneden van verschillende formaten door Hans Schauffelein, verschillende herhaalde. Enkele wormgaatjes in achterplat en boekblok achterin, anders zeer goed bewaard. Band uit de periode, in vol kalfsleder op eiken platten, versierd met blindstempeling, bronsbeslag op twee hoeken, scheur in leder aan bovenste kapitaal

The 1st Dutch translation of Livy, a monument of Dutch vernacular Renaissance printing. Title within border of 4 large woodcuts, 232 large illustrations in text (some repeats). Very large Roman and grotesque initials. Some tail pieces showing the device of the Cologne printer Eucharius Cervicornus. Gothic type. Ref. BT 1958. ; Machiels L-404. ; Pettegree NB 19427. ; Vanden Branden (Gymnicus) 7. ; Geerebaert CXV.
1. ; STC Dutch (BL) 123. ; Not in Adams

Humanism History