Bonfini on the history of Hungary from 1568
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Beskrivning
HUNGARIAN HISTORY. BONFINI, ANTONIUS. Rerum Ungaricarum decades quatur, cum dimidia... Accessit etiam locuples rerum & verborum toto opere memorabilium index. Basileae (ex officina Oporiniana) 1568.
Folio (376x251 mm.). (3), 4-11, (1), (1)-564, 563-923, (1 blank, probably lacks 6 unpaginated pages at end) pp. Title with woodcut printer's device.
Contemporary blindtooled pigskin, somewhat worn, upper cover warped, upper cover with the initials GED and year 1578, spine in six compartments, lacks ties, some worming, lacks last endpaper. Some minor marginal worming. Minor foxing and some minor marginal dampstaining. Some old annotations and signature on title.
Antonio Bonfini (1434-1503), Italian humanist and poet, court historian in Hungary to king Matthias Corvinus.
From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).
Auktionsnummer:
6186
Datum:
2015-06-16