[Rarebooks] FS: Very scarce 1st ed. of Livy in Dutch in a contemporary binding
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Tue Jan 18 13:47:24 EST 2005
Livius, Titus. DAT IS, DE ROEMSCHE HISTORIE OFT GESTEN… Nu Eerstmal in Onser
Nederlantscher Spraken Ghedruckt. Antwerp: (Jan Grapheaus and sold by J.
Gymnicus). 1541. Folio. ff.(14),567. Gothic type. With woodcut borders on title and
first text leaf and 232 large woodcut illustrations throughout the text. A
particularly attractive copy in cont. brown calf, with rich blind roll-stamping.
Brass & leather fore-edge clasps. With the exlibris of J. W. Six and G. van
Havre and with signatures of two other previous owners, De Blaez and Frederic
Verachter. $6,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
The very scarce first edition of Livy in Dutch, in a well preserved
contemporary binding. Also, this is an important early Dutch illustrated book. BL Dutch
STC p. 123. Two copies are recorded in the N.U.C. and three copies by the
OCLC.
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