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LIVIUS, Titus

Rerum gestarum populi Romani [...] libri triginta [...]. Lucij Flori Epitome [...]. Cum annotationibus M. Antonij Sabellici [...], [ed. Gilbertus Ducherius]
Paris
Pierre Vidoué for Jean Petit
April 1527
€380 - €450

Folio: [62]-CCLXXXVIII [= 288] ff. Title within elaborate woodcut border incorporating the arms of France and Paris as well as 5 times the name 'Petit', with the printer's mark of Pierre Vidoué (showing Fortune). Index title (aa1r) within elaborate woodcut border and with Petit's large mark (mark repeated at the end of the book). Large historiated woodcut initials. Old gilt calf, covers with gilt central ornament and ruled borders, gilt spine with 5 raised bands, blue edges (sl. loosening at front, a few scratches, joints starting to split at head and tail). Excellent well-preserved copy

Very rare attractively printed Paris folio Livy, edited by the Auvergnat humanist and poet Gilbert Ducher (1490-1548). Ref. BP16 105439. - Moreau III:1255. - Not in Adams. Prov. 17th-c. ownership entry on front flyleaf ('francisci van hoorn')

Humanism Early printing