Liber de Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis

by Johannes Trithemius, or Tritheim

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First edition

1494. 148 leaves, including the final blank , Roman letter except for the two-line title in gothic type , 51 lines & headline, capital spaces with guide letters. Folio 290 x 188 mm. , late 17th-cent. panelled English speckled calf rebacked with the orig. spine laid-down, minor staining to a few leaves in blank upper margins . Basel: J. Amerbach, 1494. First edition of the “first bibliography to be compiled as a practical work of

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