Trogus Pompeius]

Justini ex trogo pompeio historiae cum multis memorabilibus in margine.[Fol.1. verso] Justini Historici Clarissimi In Trogi Pompei Historias Exordium.

      Venice : Johannem Tachuinum De Tridino. 1512. [Together with] Lucii Flori. Gestorum Romanorum.[edited by P. Beroaldus].Two works printed as one volume; with continuous pagination. With large woodcut printers device to title-page depicting John the Baptist and the Lamb within a decorative border, the first text ends on leaf 47 verso; the second on leaf 68 recto, followed by the colophon and the index, numerous large decorative woodcut capitals throughout the first work, the second work has 4 large and numerous smaller decorative capitals, 69 ll; small folio; sigs. A - M ; in 6's except for M with 'Finis' at foot of M3 verso, (lacks M4 [blank]), 17th.century mottled brown calf with 6 raised bands, the spine gilt in compartments, each with a central pomegranate tool gilt, the second with a red lettering piece gilt, ( gilding rubbed to upper and lower compartments, endpapers and paste-downs browned and a little soiled, corner of first leaf torn with loss to first 5 letters of text on verso, neatly repaired with the missing lettering supplied in ink facsimile to match the original,neat repair to margin of leaf 55, early manuscript marginalia in a humanist hand and underlining to first work, some worming, mostly to margins and mainly to the second work, leaf 67 browned, some small marginal stains, otherwise a very good copy). Very rare; this edition apparently not in the British Library. See:- Kristeller-P. Italienischer 328 for the printers device (by Benadetto Montagna, and initialled in the block "b M"). The large capitals are particularly fine, many of them featuring putti.