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[ALDINE PRESS] -- LIVIUS -- LUCIUS FLORUS -- POLYB

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Venice: Aldus, March 1521. Small 8vo (160x 100 mm). 2 parts in one volume. 368ff., paginated 1-56, 1-310 (+ colophon, + original final blank). C.& p. Aldine woodcut device to title and spaces with guide-letters for capitals, in italics. Contemporary vellum, ms. title to spine. Condition: some leaves lightly browned or foxed, mild worming to endpapers; front opens away from spine, some soiling, chips. Provenance: scattered annotations and underlines, Jacopo Renieri (contemporary inscription to endpaper). Renouard P.90/1-3. [With:] JOVIUS, Paulus (1483-1552). Dialogo Delas Empresas Militares Y Amorosas, Compuesto en Lengua Italiana...Venice: Gabriel Giulito de Ferraris, 1558. Small 8vo (152 x 100mm). 92 pag. ff., original final blank. Printer's device to title and last leaf, woodcut initials, chapter head and tail pieces. Contemporary vellum, ms. title to spine and front cover. Condition: some leaves slightly offset; small hole to front cover, ink stamp to front pastedown, cockled. Provenance: pencil inscription to title.(2)

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