[Rarebooks] FS: Bendinellius' scarce Biography of Scipio. Modena: 1549

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Bendinellius, Antonius. P. CORNELLII SCIPIONIS AEMILIANI AFRICANI MINORIS VITA... Mutinae (Modena): No printer. 1549. Sm. 8vo. ff.63,(9). Full-page printer's device on I6. I7 and 8 (the final two leaves) are tables printed vertically. Old limp vellum made from a music manuscript. Old soiling to inner margin of final 10 leaves. Outer blank margin of leaves f.13-34 with a worm track not close to the text.	$750.00 (trade discount allowed)
A very scarce biography of Scipio (188-129 B.C.), a leading general and politician of the ancient Roman republic. Another edition printed by Torrentino the same year in Florence is much more common. Not in Adams or British Library. Censimento CNCE 5129.


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