Titus Livius (59 BC-AD 17) Deche di Tito Livio Vulgare Hystoriate

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Titus Livius (59 BC-AD 17) Deche di Tito Livio Vulgare Hystoriate. [Venice: Bartolomeo de Zannis de Portesio for L.A. Giunta, 1511].
Folio, translated by Leonardo Bruni (1369-1444),title page printed in red and black, with woodcut and large printer's mark; large woodcut border on the first page of text, and the first page of the third book, lacking the divisional page for book two with the large woodcut compartment and five other text leaves; ex libris Nathan Comfort Starr, with his bookplate inside the front board and penciled name on ffep, in a later binding, water stains, ink spots, small burn marks, tears, worming, and other damage to the leaves throughout, later marginal notes, some pages loose, title page thumbed, later parchment over boards, defective, 11 1/2 x 8 in.
The text is illustrated with more than 400 cartoon-like woodcuts, originally created for the 1493 edition of the same Bruni translation, re-used in 1502 and again in this edition.
Estimate $1,000-1,500

[pi]4, a-f8, g6, h-o8, p10, aa6, bb-pp8, qq10 (lacking bb1),A6, B-8 (lacking D5, D6, P3, Q7 and Q8.)


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