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Dr. Eichenberger
Bein WIl Am See
Aug. '97
Sf. 65 = $44.22

Thucydides (460-455-c399 B.C.)
Historia belli Peloponnesiaci f^0
[Treviso: Johannes (Rubeus) Vercellensis, 1483?]
Laurentius Valla, tr. Bartho) omaeus Parthenius ed.
Ref: Goff T-359 HC 15511 Polain 3782 Pr 6500
BMC VI 896 Haebler, Plate 47, Type 2.
Copy: HEHL, LC, PML, UCalBL, BPubL

a-r^8. 136 leaves, the 1st + last blank. 6^a, 46-7 lines
189x125mm. Capital spaces. the innermost pages
of several quires are short. The 1st edition.
Types: 82 R (P2) small text type with single longtailed
Qu, dot of i to right of shaft; single sloping
hyphen. In use throughout Rubeus's career from
1482 onwards.

1st ed. of Valla's Latin translation, the only 15th C. ed. of
Thucydides. The preface is addressed to Pope Nicolas V
Finely printed by the first press of Joh. Rubeus from
which only 9 books were issued. One of the great classics
of historiography. The Greek text did not appear until 1502.
Although this printer seems to have been connected
with book production at Treviso as early as Aug. 1480,
his name does no occur in an authentically Trevisan colophon
until 1482, the year in which he also signed a book
with Venetian imprint. He was still at work in
Treviso in 1485 but had established himeslf
permanently at Venice by 1486.

Fnc. 134, r^0 vie de Thucydide: EX -
V^0 Alimu // sius antro?