Title: Historia de Alexandre Magno
Author: Curtius Rufus, Quintus
Description: [iv], 89 leaves. Collation: A4, a-k8, l10 [-l10, a blank]. Large woodcut portrait on title; woodcut initials throughout. (Folio) 10¾x8, early full vellum, spine lettered by hand.Translated into the Spanish by an unknown individual, from the Italian edition of Decembrio (1478). OCLC locates no copies, COPAC locates only the Cambridge copy. Rare.
Heading: zzcPlace Published: Seville
Publisher: Juan Varela de Salamanca
Date Published: 1518
Author: Curtius Rufus, Quintus
Description: [iv], 89 leaves. Collation: A4, a-k8, l10 [-l10, a blank]. Large woodcut portrait on title; woodcut initials throughout. (Folio) 10¾x8, early full vellum, spine lettered by hand.Translated into the Spanish by an unknown individual, from the Italian edition of Decembrio (1478). OCLC locates no copies, COPAC locates only the Cambridge copy. Rare.
Heading: zzcPlace Published: Seville
Publisher: Juan Varela de Salamanca
Date Published: 1518
Condition report
Vellum stained, heavily on rear; approx. 1" chip from title leaf with resulting loss of a few line ends on verso, final text leaf chipped at upper corner with loss of a few letters, lacking final blank, some early marginalia, staining; overall good.
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Fine & Rare Books with Alexander the Great
1:00 PM PT - Jun 26th, 2008
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