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K.J. Hewett (1919-1994) was a renowned London dealer in ethnographic art and antiquities. Other books from his library were offered in these rooms on 21 March 2018.
LIVIUS (TITUS) [Latinae historiae principis decas prima], first part only, [Lyon, Sebastian Gryphius, 1548]
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LIVIUS (TITUS)
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The first volume of a scarce pocket edition of Simon Grynaeus's 1531 Basle edition of Livy's Roman history, bound in a contemporary Paris or Lyon morocco "Entrelac Vide" binding. The attractive series of marginal vignettes (male and female couple, soldiers, hunting scene, horse and carriage, cattle, etc.) appear to have been added in the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century.
Provenance: Contemporary inscription at head of a5r, "In nomine dni nostrij JESU Christij/Anno 1550 I'd Januar'r", with many other annotations in same hand; Thomas Baguley, early seventeenth century inscription on p.496; Beverley and William Jepson, late sixteenth/early seventeenth century signatures on blank verso of final leaf; Thomas Ewart Marston, bookplate; E.P. Goldschmidt (1887-1954), with his gilt ex-libris; K.J. Hewett, name label inside lower cover.





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