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Lilius, Zacharias, Bischof von Sebaste.

Orbis Breviarium, fide compendio ordineque captu, ac memoratu facillimum, felix et gratus legito. Donatus Zerbus, ioanni petro Pheretrio Rhauenn, Gaudere. [Venice, Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis de Forlivio, after 1500(?)]. Cl.-4°. Roman type, 30 lines. 98 unnum. (pagination:a6, b-m8, n4). With 2 schematic woodcuts and numerous beautiful initials on shot-ground. Vellum binding, probably 17th century, on two bands (stained; capitals torn; edges scuffed). ISTC il00220000. GKW M18353. BMC(It) p.378. Goff L-220. third edition, first published by Miscomini in 1493. ISTC dated to "about 1505". The author Lilius came from Vicenza and lived in the 15th century; he was a canon at the Lateran and later Bishop of Sebaste in Armenia. A remarkable work for the history of geography and descriptive cartography. The schematic "T" map of the world still shows the earth in the old world view, as in the first edition of 1493. The pretty shot-ground initials show letters surrounded by putti, animals and mythical creatures. A decent copy. Various ownership entries from the 16th and 17th centuries on the flyleaf. One register leaf more heavily foxed, otherwise a quite clean copy, with the usual finger marks. Title painted on the lower cut.

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Estimate 1 800 - 2 700 EUR
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