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Pliny; Livy; Giovanni Tacuino; Giovani Bemo, ed : Annotationes vertes & recentes ex Plinio, Livio & Pluribus Authoribus (and other works by Beroaldo, Poliziano, Egnazio, Calderino, and Pio.)

Giovanni Tacuino de Tridino, Venice, c. 1508

Early 18th century vellum boards, flat spine with title written in period ink. , Leaf 66 has a clean tear at the bottom which is professionally restored and hardly noticeable, edges of text block trimmed (affecting some of the page numbers) otherwise an excellent copy of this compilation of commentaries of Renaissance writers on the works by Pliny and Livy (ancient Roman historians of the Republic and Early Empire). Impressions are crisp and clean., Large 4to, Foliation. (38), 1-84., With elaborate initials throughout.

An unrecorded (first?) issue of the second edition of this rare collection of writings on Roman history, edited by Giovani Bemo whose preface is addressed to Andreas Anixus Corcyraeus. This is a collection of works that was first published in 1502, and includes works by Filippo Beroaldi, Angelus Politianus, Johannes Baptista Pius and Domitius Calderinus. , BMSTC Italian pg 188; Not in Adams

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