1493 INCUNABULA illustrated TITUS LIVIUS HISTORY antique FOLIO incunable RARE

- Historiae Romanae decades [Italian], modern half calfby Titus LiviusVenice: Johannes Rubeus Vercellensis, for Lucantonio Giunta, February  11, 1493folio: 9 by 13 1/4"   (328 x 216mm.)347 leaves (=694 pp)double column, 63 lines plus headline, roman type, woodcut initials, first leaf of each decade with a woodcut illustration within an architectural woodcut border, 420 other woodcut illustrations in text modern half leather over speckled paper boards, retaining old lettering-piece on spine, lacking the table) and N8-P8 (Bruni's history of the Punic War), first three leaves repairedminor occasional stainingLacks the colophon (last leaf) with publication dateThis edition contains the first, third and fourth decades of Livy's history of Rome. The text of Livy and the illustrations for it are complete. Text in ItalianOne of the great Venetian picture books of 15th centuryPROVENANCE:Caietanus de Neronis (Gaetano Neroni),  January 19, 1736, inscription at head of aa8; Libr