[Rarebooks] FS: Very early edition of Marcus Vida's OPERA. Venice: 1538

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Vida, Marcus Hieronymus. OPERA, Quae Quidem Extant... Christiadas... De 
Poetica... De Bombicum... De Scacchorum Ludo... (Venice: Melchiorem Sessem. 1538). 
8vo. 335,(31)pp. Index. Sessa’s cat & mouse device on title and on colophon. 
Early vellum. Title-page a bit soiled and with a small hole in a blank 
area.     $1,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
A very scarce early edition of the collected works of M. H. Vida 
(1480?-1566), which contains his famous chess poem “Scacchia Ludus.” See Graesse Vol. 7, 
p. 302 (this ed.). Not in OCLC, Adams, or the BL Italian STC.

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