Livy [Titus Livius] (64/59 BCE-12/17 CE) Decades

Livy [Titus Livius] (64/59 BCE-12/17 CE)

Decades Noviter Impresse. Venice: Joannes & Bernardinus Vercellenses for Giunta, 1506.Folio, title page printed in red, three divisional titles with large woodcut compartments, illustrated with more than 150 woodcut text vignettes, illustrated throughout, bound in blind-tooled calf over wooden boards from the Weddern Carthusian Monastery with tools identified in EBDB s015650, s015652, s015654, s015657, and the coat of arms of the monastery, s036592; with brass clasps and catches, rebacked, somewhat worn, later marbled endleaves, contemporary ownership inscription to title, 12 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.The Marienburg Charterhouse (Kartause Marienburg), Weddern in the parish of Dülmen was a Carthusian Monastery in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany between 1476 and 1804.Sander 4000; Essling I, 50 #37; Schweiger I, 526; Camerini, Giunti I, 130 #106.