SABELLICUS, Marcus Antonius Coccius. Croniche che tractano de la origine de Veneti, e del principio de la cita. Translated by Matheo Vesconte de Sancto Canciano . [?Milan: Gotardus de Ponte] for Oldrato Lampugnano, [?1510]. 2° (295 x 209mm). Letterpress title printed in red within white-on-black woodcut border, final page xylographic title printed in red within same woodcut border, printer's device (Vaccaro III) on V9 r. (Small tear in title touching a few letters, a few small wormholes in lower and inner margins at the end affecting the woodcut border on last page.) Eighteenth-century English calf, covers with stained panels and central lozenges outlined in gilt, surrounding the gilt arms of JOHN, DUKE OF ROXBURGHE (rebacked, corners repaired, endpapers renewed). Provenance : John, Duke of Roxburghe (1740-1804, binding); Sir William Stirling Maxwell (large armorial bookplate, not in his sale Christie's 20-23 May 1958). FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN, with a distinguished provenance. Sabellicus (born Marcantonio Cocchi) was appointed keeper of the Biblioteca Marciana after the publication of his important history of Venice ( Rerum venetiarum decades ), in 1487. Adams S-18; Goff S-5a; Sander 6650.
SABELLICUS, Marcus Antonius Coccius. Croniche che tractano de la origine de Veneti, e del principio de la cita. Translated by Matheo Vesconte de Sancto Canciano . [?Milan: Gotardus de Ponte] for Oldrato Lampugnano, [?1510]. 2° (295 x 209mm). Letterpress title printed in red within white-on-black woodcut border, final page xylographic title printed in red within same woodcut border, printer's device (Vaccaro III) on V9 r. (Small tear in title touching a few letters, a few small wormholes in lower and inner margins at the end affecting the woodcut border on last page.) Eighteenth-century English calf, covers with stained panels and central lozenges outlined in gilt, surrounding the gilt arms of JOHN, DUKE OF ROXBURGHE (rebacked, corners repaired, endpapers renewed). Provenance : John, Duke of Roxburghe (1740-1804, binding); Sir William Stirling Maxwell (large armorial bookplate, not in his sale Christie's 20-23 May 1958). FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN, with a distinguished provenance. Sabellicus (born Marcantonio Cocchi) was appointed keeper of the Biblioteca Marciana after the publication of his important history of Venice ( Rerum venetiarum decades ), in 1487. Adams S-18; Goff S-5a; Sander 6650.
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