Year/Century: 15th century
Language: Italian
Subject: History
Binding: Leather
Description: Historiae Romanae decades [Italian], contemporary half-calf by Titus Livius Venice: Johannes Rubeus Vercellensis, for Lucantonio Giunta, February 11, 1493 folio: 9 by 13 1/4" (328 x 216mm.) 347 leaves (=694 pp) double column, 63 lines plus headline, roman type, woodcut initials, first leaf of each decade with a woodcut illustration within an architectural woodcut border, multiple additional woodcut illustrations, modern half leather over speckled paper boards, keeping older lettering-piece on spine, except the table) and N8-P8 (Bruni's Punic War history), the first three leaves have been fixed; there is some light staining occasionally. This version includes the first, third, and fourth decades of Livy's Rome history. Livy's text and all of its pictures are finished.
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