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BLONDUS, Flavius (1392-1463). Historiarum ab inclinatione Romanorum imperii decades. — PIUS II (1405-1464). Abbreviatio supra Decades Blondi. Venice: Thomas de Blavis, de Alexandria, 28 June 1484.
BLONDUS, Flavius (1392-1463). Historiarum ab inclinatione Romanorum imperii decades. — PIUS II (1405-1464). Abbreviatio supra Decades Blondi. Venice: Thomas de Blavis, de Alexandria, 28 June 1484.

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BLONDUS, Flavius (1392-1463). Historiarum ab inclinatione Romanorum imperii decades. — PIUS II (1405-1464). Abbreviatio supra Decades Blondi. Venice: Thomas de Blavis, de Alexandria, 28 June 1484.

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BLONDUS, Flavius (1392-1463). Historiarum ab inclinatione Romanorum imperii decades. — PIUS II (1405-1464). Abbreviatio supra Decades Blondi. Venice: Thomas de Blavis, de Alexandria, 28 June 1484.

Second edition of a comprehensive account of the history of Europe and Christendom since the fall of the Roman Empire. This is the first edition to include the Abbrevatio by Pius II, first published separately in 1481. A tall, fresh copy. HC *3249; GW 4420; BMC V 317; Bod-inc B-355; BSB-Ink B-552; ISTC ib00699000; Goff B-699.

Super-chancery folio (311 x 210m). 302 leaves, with the first blank (slight waterstaining in extreme upper margin, single marginal wormhole in first leaves). Contemporary Heidelberg blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards from the shop of the Follower of Alberthus, active 1487-1500 [Kyriss 40, EBDB w000044], two fore-edge clasps, vellum title label in a contemporary hand on upper cover (lightly scuffed and stained, clasp leather renewed). Provenance: marginal annotations in a contemporary humanist hand.
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