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Delle guerre civili de Romani. Tradotto da Messer Alexandro Braccese Fiorentino nuovamente con somma diligentia impresso.
by APPIANUS ALEXANDRINUS
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- Condition
- Very Good+
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About This Item
8vo. ff. 287, [1]. Italic letter, sporadic Roman. Woodcut printer's device of t-p and verso of final leaf, imprint and register at colophon. Capital spaces with small guide-letters. Small marginal worm holes on t-p. Rebound preserving the period richly blind-stamped calf with arabesque panel on covers over a more recent leather binding, renewed ties and some small losses of original leather on spine caps. A.e.b., a very good plus wide-margined copy, clean and crisp throughout.
Second Giunti edition (1st ed. issued in 1519), corrected, of Appian's The Civil Wars translated from the Greek into Vernacular Italian by Alessandro Braccese. Printed by Silber, the first edition of the Italian vernacular translation of The Foreign Wars appeared in Rome in 1502. Dedicatory letter by Giannozzo Pandolfini addressing Piero Filippi.
EDIT16 CNCE 2198; Renouard, Giunta, no. 92; STC (Italian) p. 35; not in Adams.
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- Orsi Libri ALAI, ILAB
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- Title
- Delle guerre civili de Romani. Tradotto da Messer Alexandro Braccese Fiorentino nuovamente con somma diligentia impresso.
- Author
- APPIANUS ALEXANDRINUS
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
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- 1
- Publisher
- Per li Heredi di Philippo di Giunta
- Place of Publication
- Florence
- Date Published
- 1526
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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