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FULGOSUS (FREGOSO), Baptista - De dictis factisque memorabilibus collectanea [Latin trsl. from It...

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FULGOSUS (FREGOSO), Baptista - De dictis factisque memorabilibus collectanea [Latin trsl. from It...
FULGOSUS (FREGOSO), Baptista - De dictis factisque memorabilibus collectanea [Latin trsl. from Italian by] Camillus Gilinus. Milan, Giacomo Ferrari, 22 June 1509, 2o, old vellumcovered boards (warped, damaged at bottom of spine), top edge titled (remains of old ms. text inside covers), [326] lvs. (duplicate quires cc-dd bound between oo8-pp1, some foxing and staining, esp. at the beginning; small single wormtrack in blank upper margin of quires gg-oo, 4 blank corners of white margins cut off). Good wide-margined copy. € 300/500 First Latin edition of an early encyclopedia, by the Doge of Genoa, Battista Fregoso (1453-1504), containing numerous anecdotes of world history. It became a treasurehouse of popular learning. "Edition très recherchée" (Hoefer). Numerous woodcut decorative initials. Library stamps on titlepage partly deleted. Ref. Sandal, Milano 650. Adams F-1148. STCItalian (BL London) p. 281. Brunet II, 1421. Not in Machiels.