Platynae hystoria de Vitis Pontificum: periucunda: diligenter recognita: & nunc tantum integre impressa and: Platynae dialogus de falso & vero bono etc. caption title

by Platina, Bartolomeo Sacchi

$3,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Fourth edition of the Vitae Pontificum; second edition of Contra amores; first printings of the other works. Large woodcut illustration on the title, woodcut initials. Collation: a-s8; A-F8G6 bound without A8 and D1, replaced by binder’s leaves . cxlvi, 52 of 54 leaves. Terminal blank G6 with two dozen manuscript citations in two early hands, backed with early binder’s leaf, with another dozen references in ink. Extensive marginalia in several hands.

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