[Rarebooks] FS: Justinus edited by Sabellicus in Venice, circa 1489-90

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(INCUNABULA) Justinus, Marcus Junianus. EPITOME IN TROGI POMPEII
HISTORIAS. [Edited by Marcus Antonius Sabellicus]. Venice: Joannes
Rubeus Vercellensis for Antonius Moretus. N.d., but after 1489-1490.
Folio. Roman type. ff.54. Later plain boards, stained brown. Light text
soiling, otherwise a very nice wide-margined copy.  $5,500.00 (trade
discount allowed)
Important scholarly edition, edited by M. A. Sabellicus (1436-1506),
with revisions by Justinianus Romanus. A second text by Lucinus Annaeus
Florus appears on ff.38-54, entitled “Gestorum Romanorum Epithoma;” it
is edited by Filippo Beroaldo the Younger (1472-1518). Goff J 619;
Hain-Copinger 9653; BMC V, 421.

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