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Sabellicus, Marcus Antonius Coccius.

Opera omnia, ab infinitis quibus scatebant mendis, repurgata & castigata: cum supplemento Rapsodiae historiarum ab Orbe condito, ad haec usque tempora, pulcherrimo ac diligentissimo, in Tomes quatuor digesta.per Caelium Secundum Curionem (general title page in vol. I).

Basel, Johann Herwagen the Elder, 1560

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Year of publication
1560
Author
Sabellicus, Marcus Antonius Coccius.
Publishers
Basel, Johann Herwagen the Elder

Description

Woodcut printer's marks and initials. 4 in 3 vols. (vol. 3-4 bound as one). Folio. 17th century mottled calf, gilt-tooled, marbled endpapers three edges red (rebacked and repaired, crossed name on titles, blind library stamps on first and last leaves). From the collection of Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland (lot 10870 in his sale, 1882). Basel, Johann Herwagen the Elder, 1560. First complete edition. Sabellicus (1436-1506), scholar and historian from Venice, was a pupil of Julius Pompominus Laetus. Later he became Professor of Eloquence at Udine and Venice, and was appointed keeper of the Biblioteca Marciana after the publication of his history of Venice "Decades rerum Venetarum" (1487). His present "Rapsodiae" contains some brief references on the discovery of America.- Nice copy. - VD 16 S 5; Ebert 19677; Adams S 12; Sabin 74666; cf. Harrisse 224.
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