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Lot 479

Sale 5213 - Rare Books and Manuscripts
Apr 4, 2013 6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$1,500 - 2,500
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$1,300
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1 vol.
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1 vol.
Livius Pativinus, Titus. [Livy]. Historicus Duobis Libris. Mainz: Joannis Schoeffer, November, 1518. Folio, blind-stamped pigskin over bds, brass corners; worn, lacking clasps. With woodcut title page, other woodcut bordered pages and decorated initials. 53/54 lines. 330 x 210 mm - sheet size. Contemp. ink annotations (dated 1518) to t-p, other dust smuding and some staining. Library instamp to verso of t-p, occasional dampstaining throughout. s4 with closed edge tear. Rear matter affected by worm. Contemp. inscriptions to front paste down, dated 1545, belonging to Amesunxen(?) Cathedral. Some dustsoiling to margins, discoloration & damage to f203, very lightly affected by worn.
Adams L-1321.
Livy (c59BC-17AD); Roman History, only surviving work is his "History of Rome"

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