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OROSIUS, PAULUS. Historiae adversus paganos. [77] (of [78]) leaves; lacks initial blank. Roman type. bound with: VALLA, LORENZO. Elegantiae linguae Latinae. [96] (of [100]) leaves, with index bound in front; lacks last 4 leaves of end matter. Printer's woodcut device on a1r and o8v. Roman type. and: (ALEXANDER MAGNUS.) Historia Alexandri Magni. [38] leaves, including final blank. Gothic type. Together, 3 volumes in one, the first and third ruled in red. Folio, 285x205 mm, contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards with undulating pattern filled in with rosettes on covers, brass catches, lacking clasps, spine expertly restored; varying marginal dampstaining throughout, scattered early marginalia, worming in blank outer margin of opening leaves in first work, paper corrosion in blank upper outer corners of the third work. Contemporary purchase inscription of Rogerus Le Sac on rear pastedown; 17th-century Nijmegen Franciscan ownership inscription on first title. (Venice: Octavianus Scotus, 30 July 1483); (Paris: [Johannes Higman for] Wolfgang Hopyl, 5 January 1490/91); (Strassburg: Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner), 14 October 1486)
Fourth edition of the first universal history by a Christian author, written in the early 5th century and first printed in 1471. Hain-Copinger 12102; BMC V 278; Goff O-98; ISTC io00098000. Scarce seventeenth edition of a standard Renaissance manual of Latin style first printed in 1471. GW M49291; ISTC iv00062500 locates only the copies at the University of St. Andrew's in Scotland and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris (imperfect); this edition not in Hain, BMC, or Goff. Fourth edition of the 10th-century adaptation by Leo Archipresbyter of an older collection of legends concerning the exploits of Alexander the Great, first printed circa 1472. Hain 779; GW 876; BMC I 135; Goff A397; ISTC ia00397000.
