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Valentin Curio
1523, March
Folio: [36]-566-[1 bl., 1] pp. Title within elaborate woodcut border, by J. Faber after Hans HOLBEIN the Younger, printed for the first time in this edition, with the busts of King Salomon, classical authors and the crowning of Homerus by the Muses. Ff. [2] and a1r within woodcut border. Woodcut mark at the end. With 18 beautiful initials from the ""Large alphabet with children"", (some unobtrusive toning and dampstaining, title underlaid, some margins and bottom corners strengthened, single wormholes in blank margin). 19th-c. half leather, marbled paper on covers, flat spine with morocco label, green edges, decorative endpapers (corners rubbed, sm. def. at front cover). Good copy
Strabo's description of Greece in Latin translation(s) by Guarino Veronese (1374-1460), Gregorius Triphernas (1414-1462) and Konrad Heresbach (1496-1576). Ref. VD16 S-9346. - Not in Adams. Prov. Old ownership entries on title