Auction 355 Old & Rare Books - (Post)incunabula
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JUSTINUS. Trogi Pompei externae Historiae in compendivm ab Iustino redactae. Externorum imperatorum vitae authore Aemylio Probo. Venice, Aldus, 1522. 204 lvs. W. woodcut printer's mark on ti. & at the end (Aldus device A5, see Aldus Press p. 557). Sm-8°. Old cf. w. raised bands & dec. gilt back, sides ruled in gilt & mottled edges. (Label for the greater part gone, bind. a bit rubbed/chafed, joints partly split,ti-p. & leaf d1 & leaf B8 a bit stained, lower blank corner last leaf torn off).

Renouard p. 96.9: "Edition fort rare, et bien plus correcte que toutes les précédentes du quinzième siècle et du commencement du seizième." Dibdin II, 138: "… a very rare and correct edition". - Aldus Press 209; Adams J-723; Palau 76.

€ 700

result € 600

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