VORAGINE, JACOBUS DE. (JACOPO DE FAZIO). C.1230-1298.

[Legenda aurea. "Lombardica historia."] Paris: Jean Réal, 1549.

[Legenda aurea. "Lombardica historia."] Paris: Jean Réal, 1549.
Folio (307 x 200 mm). 262 leaves (lacking title and preliminaries). Double column, batard type. Numerous woodcut illustrations. 18th century mottled calf, cloth slipcase. Some browning and staining, chipping to margins of first few leaves, D3 torn.

Mid-sixteenth century edition of this very popular work, comprising descriptions of the lives and martyrdoms of early saints. Over 150 incunabula edition are known. This edition is rare and was not sold at auction in the past 45 years, according to American Book Prices Current.