[Rarebooks] FS: Greatest early history of Florence, published March 8, 1476

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(INCUNABULA) Poggius Florentinus. HISTORIA FLORENTINA [Translated into 
Italian by Jacobus Poggius]. (Venice: Jacobus Rubeus. March 8, 1476). First edition. 
Folio (11-3/4” x 8-1/4”). 116 leaves (including the rare final blank). Roman 
type. Forty-one lines, capital spaces (some with guide letters). Full 18th 
cent. diced burgundy Russia, cover with gilt fillet borders and inner gilt 
panels tied by foliate corner pieces, spine compartments with gilt elephant devices 
and gilt lettering, gilt board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Some 
drying to spine with upper and lower front joint cracked but still strong. 
Chemised and housed in 1/4 brown morocco slipcase. Occasional early ink marginalia, 
final blank has some crude early scrawling. Title (a1) and text with 
scattered oxidation or foxing. Armorial bookplate of Robert Walsingham Martin. An 
excellent copy of one of the great early humanist histories of Florence.     
$12,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
Poggio has very elegantly written, in eight books, what took place in 
Florence between 1350 and 1455. Goff P-873. Hain 13172. BMC V, p. 215.

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