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LIVIUS, Titus

Latinae historiae principis (...) cuius copiam nobis fecit celebre Monasterium Lorsense. Addita est Chronologia Henrici Glareani (...)
Basel
Froben
1531
€1.000 - €1.800

In-folio (37 x 25 cm), [8], 244, 243, [1], 210 pp., [2 blank], 91, [1] pp., [74], 45, [1] pp. Woodcut printer's device on titles and last pages. Beautiful woodcut initials. Fine copy, a few marginalia, some stains and wormholes). Old annotations on first paste-down. Original blind-tooled pigskin bindings over wooden boards, with 2 brass clasps (repairs on upper end of spine and corners of lower board)

Ref. VD16 L 2094, Further numbers: VD16 F 1694, VD16 L 2604; Adams L-1327; Dibdin II,165 - Vander Haeghen II, 39. ERASMUS's edition of Livius, containing for the first time the five books of Livius discovered by Grynaeus. This Editio Princeps with a special title. Preceded by a letter of Erasmus to his pupil Charles Blount.

Provenance:
manuscript owner's entry by the Wurtemberg theologian Christoph Binder (1519-1596) on title ; Beyers (1977)