[Rarebooks] FS: History of Rome, 1483

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(INCUNABULA) Blondus, Flavius (or, Biondo, Flavio). HISTORIARUM ROMANORUM 
DECADES. (Venice: Octavianus Scotus. July 16, 1483). Folio. 371(of 372) leaves. 
Lacking the preliminary blank (A1). Roman type. Capital spaces not filled in, 
except the first initial letter “R” in blue (now quite faded). Modern full 
dark brown calf, blind tooled, spine with red morocco label.     $7,500.00 (trade 
discount allowed)
First edition of this famous history of Rome by the 15th century historian 
Blondus (d. 1463). Curiously, this copy has added 3 leaves of index from another 
work (a text on problems in Aristotle) bound in error   between final leaves 
S7 and the register S8. Goff B698; BMC V 277.

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