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LOT 244
€300,00 - €600,00

[Classical antiquity] Livius, Titus. Dat is de Roemsche historie of Gesten,

(...) waer wt niet alleene alle weereltlike staten tot vromicheyt en[de] ridderlike manlike feyte[n] beweget en[de] gedwonge[n], maer oock alle andere staten tot grooter recreatien en[de]) ghenuechten des herte[n] ghetrocken sullen worden, nu eerstmael in onser Nederlantscher spraken ghedruckt. Antw., J. Grapheus for J. Gymnicus, 1541, (14),CCCCCLXVII lvs, w. 232 woodcuts of var. sizes by Hans Schauffelein (some repeated), large Roman and grotesque initials. Cont. blindst. leather over wooden sides, folio. Lacks the final blank leaf, the final present leaf dam. affecting the text, waterstains and (finger)soiling throughout. Binding badly dam. and lacking most of the leather.

The 1st Dutch translation of Livy, a monument of Dutch vernacular Renaissance printing. Machiels L-404; Pettegree NB 19427; Vanden Branden (Gymnicus) 7; Geerebaert CXV.1.

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