8vo, 327 pp, woodcut printer's device on title. Old ms. ex libris on title page and some ink blotches. Numerous contemporary annotations in ink in the beginning. Bound with: Titus LIVIUS. Decadis primae, Liber primus ... ab urbe condita ... Dortmund, Melchior Soter, 1546. 8vo, 85 + [2] pp, woodcut printer's device on last page, with kabbalistic device in Greek, Hebrew, Latin and Chaldean. Contemporary limp vellum, the fly lvs. are old manuscript vellum lvs with rubrication and penwork initials
Melchior Soter was the first printer in Dortmund, he did not produce many titles, all are scarce. Ref. VD16 ZV 9907, both not in Adams, the second not in VD-16, nor in WorldCat