TITE-LIVE. The second volume of the grans decades. Paris, n.D. [at colophon] : P…
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TITE-LIVE.

The second volume of the grans decades. Paris, n.d. [at colophon] : Printed for Guillaume Eustache, 1515. Gothic folio, modern vellum. Bechtel, T-81. Second edition of the first French translation of Titus Livius by Pierre Berceure (Bercheure or Bersuire), a 14th-century monk from Vendée. Printed in gothic type, with a dozen woodcuts in the text in the style of Vérard. From the library of L. Froissart (1977, n°127). Second volume only, out of the three that comprise the edition. Important stain on leaf L2, reaching the wood.

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TITE-LIVE.

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