VERGILE (Polydore).

De rerum inventoribus libri octo. Basel, Jean Froben, 1525. - Adagiorum opus. Ibid. - TERENCE. Comoedias. Basel, Jean Froben, 1532. Set of 3 works in one volume in-folio, sow skin stamped in cold on ais, rectangular panel drawn by multiple nets and rolls, clasps, spine decorated (Binding of the time). Collection of 3 editions from the presses of Jean Froben, one of the most prolific printers-publishers of Basel in the 16th century. It contains two texts by Polydore Vergile (c. 1470-1555), a humanist and historian born in Urbino: the De rerum inventoribus, or "book of inventions", divided into eight books, the last of which, concerning the origins and institutions of the Church, led to the work being placed on the Index; and the opus of the Adagiorum, a collection of ancestral proverbs (adages) originally published in 1498. There is also the first edition given by Erasmus of the Comedies of Terence, with commentaries by Donatus, Asper and Cornutus. Impressions in Roman type. The titles of the two works by Polydore Vergile are each adorned with a beautiful woodcut frame, including the Adagiorum engraved by Hans Holbein. Volume preserved in its first stamped binding of the period, of Germanic origin. Numerous wormholes in the first part of the volume and wetness in the second.