Historiae [Latin trsl. from the Greek Nicolaus Perottus].

Folio: [102] ff., 44 ll. (marginal dampstaining, part of blank margin of aii cut off, occasional foxing).

Cont. blind-stamped calf over wood, spine on raised bands with label, metal catches (rubbed, spine def., clasps gone).

Translation by Niccolò Perotti of the first five books of "The Histories" of Polybius, relating the events occured in the Occident and the Orient from 264 till 216 BC. "Presumably reprinted from the Rome edition of 1473, with the addition of Janus' [Panonnius] Poem" (BMC). Text decorated with ornamental initials. Ref. ISTC ip00908000. - GW 34819. - Goff P-908. - BMC V:548. - BSB-Ink P-673. - Not in Polain Bound with: CATULLUS - Carmina; comm. Palladius Fuscus; Suppl. Donatus Civalellus. Venice, J. Tacuinus, de Tridino, 28 April 1496. 36 ff., 61 ll. (fiii and fiiii browned, small wormholes in the margins of the 2 last ff.). Extensive commentary by Palladius Fuscus and Donatus Civalellus surrounding the text. Printer's mark on last leaf. Ref. ISTC ic00325000. - GW 6390. - Goff C-325. - BMC V:530. - CIBN C-186. - Bsb-Ink C-199. - Not in Polain. Prov. Ownership of Conrad Celtes (1459-1508), famous German Renaissance humanist scholar and Neolatin poet. - Ownership entry of Matheus Maaschalk (?), Augustine, Doctor in Canon law, 1500. - Fürstlich Lichnowsky, Czech aristocratic family (old armorial bookplate and monogrammed stamp; and 20th-c. armorial bookpl.). - [Georges Petit].