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SILIUS ITALICUS

[De bello Punico secundo, comm. Petrus Marsus]

Paris
Nicolas Des Prez for François Regnault
21 April 1512

€400 - €500

Sm. folio: [4]-clxxiiii [= 174] ff. Title printed in red and black. Woodcut mark of Regnault on title. Numerous historiated or decorative initials (many old coloured). Printed in 2 cols with Silius' text in larger type and near the gutter. (cut short at top occasionally shaving headlines, minor soiling). 19th-c. dark half morocco, gilt spine. Good copy

Very rare early Parisian ed. of Silius' epic on the Punic War. Ref. BP16 102109. - Not in Adams. Prov. A number of contemp. marginal annotations (cropped). Sm. collector's stamps. Armorial bookpl. (?, unidentified)

Humanism Incunabula Early printing