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LIVIUS, TITUS. Titi Livii dess aller Redsprechsten und Hochberhümptesten Geschichtschreibers, Rhömische Historien. Title in red and black with

LIVIUS, TITUS. Titi Livii dess aller Redsprechsten und Hochberhümptesten Geschichtschreibers, Rhömische Historien. Title in red and black with 3-part woodcut vignette; woodcut illustrations throughout. [12], 451, [1], 93, [1] leaves. Folio, later 18th-century German 1/2 calf gilt with calf lettering piece, spine slightly wormed with resulting vertical crack in bottom compartment; some light browning and marginal dampstains, repaired wormholes in outer margin of preliminaries minimally affecting text, early inscription in lower margin of title and last preliminary page, scattered marginalia. Mainz: heirs of Johannes Schöffer, 1557

  • Notes: German translation by Jakob Micyllus and Nicolaus Carbach first published in 1541; profusely illustrated with anachronistic woodcuts depicting Livy's Roman subjects in medieval dress and armor.

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