1495 INCUNABULA BIBLE 3 FOLIO VOLUMES COMPLETE antique ILLUSTRATED BIBLIA LATINA

img{max-width:100%} BIBLIA LATINA CUM GLOSSA ORDINARIA WALAFRIDI STRABONIS ALIORUMQUE ET INTERLINEARI ANSELMI LAUDUNENSIS ET CUM POSTILIS NICOLAI DE LYRA EXPOSITIONIBUSQUE GUILLELMI BRITONIS IN OMNES PROLOGOS S. HIERONYMI Printed in Venice by Paganinus de Paganinis, 18 April 1495. Text in Latin. Edited by Bernardino Gadolo of Brescia and Secondo Contarini; with Gadolfo's dedicatory preface addressed to Cardinal Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini, the future Pope Pius III. Bound in 3 MASSIVE THICK FOLIO VOLUMES: 10 1/4 by 14 3/4" (leaves measure 36 cm x 25 cm) comprising over 3000 pages in total, ILLUSTRATED WITH 54 WOODCUTS First two volumes bound in a splendid original ca. 1500 Venetian blind-tooled brown goatskin over thick wooden boards; covers decorated with arabesque knot-work centerpieces enclosed in concentric borders of floriated and 'winding vines' rolls; spines very neatly rebacked retaining most of the original backstrips blind-ruled to