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EUSEBIUS of Caesarea. Chronicon. Latin translation by St. Jerome, with continuations by Prosper of Aquitaine (to 448), Matteo Palmieri of Florence (to 1448), and Matteo Palmieri of Pisa (to 1481); edited by Joannes Lucilius Santritter. [182] leaves, including blanks [pi]1, a1, and x10. Gothic type. Printed in red and black in tabular form. 4to, 233x168 mm, gilt-armorial brown morocco by L. Broca circa 1900, rebacked retaining original backstrip; early marginalia throughout, scattered marginal foxing, recto of initial blank heavily soiled with early inscriptions, scored inscriptions on recto of next leaf. Stamp of Michele Cavaleri (1813-circa 1875); armorial bookplate of the M.P. and Euclid bibliographer Sir Charles Thomas-Stanford, 1st Baronet (1858-1932), with his arms on rear cover and those of his wife on front. (Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 13 September 1483)
Second edition of a synoptic world history first published circa 1475-76, here enlarged to cover the years 1449-81. The entry for 1457 on v3vcontains the third published reference to johann gutenberg as the inventor of printing, after those in the 1474 Chronica of Riccobaldus Ferrariensis and the 1483 Supplementum chronicarum of Jacobus Philippus de Bergamo. Hain-Copinger 6717; GW 9433; BMC V, 287; Goff E117; ISTC ie00117000.
