Foresti, Jacobus Philippus de Bergamo

[Supplementum chronicarum.]

      Venice: Bernardinus Rizus, Novariensis 15 May, 1490. Folio, 11.6 x 8.2 inches. Second illustrated edition. [1]6, [11]6, a-z8, [et]8, [con]8, [orum]8, A-F8, G6. 272 of 274 leaves. (Lacking the first and last blanks, [1]1 and G6.) This illustrated incunabula contains the following woodcut images: a large (6.5 inch square) woodcut of the creation of Eve; three half-paged woodcuts: 1) Adam and Eve tasting the fruit and then banished from the garden; 2) Cain and Abel; and 3) the building of the Tower of Babel. A three-part smaller woodcut shows the destruction of Sodom and Gomorra. The other sixty-three woodcuts found in the text are of city views, with some repeats. Most of the woodcuts of cities are small, and some are repeated, but Venice and Rome are quite large. The woodcut of Rome may be the earliest printed view of the city ever made, see Essling I, p. 303. The printer also uses some 12-line white-on-black floriated woodcut initials. The woodcut device on the colophon leaf is Kristeller 268. This copy is bound in late-sixteenth century Italian brown sheepskin over paper boards. It is ruled in blind with a large X-shape on both boards. The endpapers are from the time of the rebinding. A seventeenth century news article about Madrid has been pasted inside the back board. The condition is quite good in this copy, which contains notes throughout..