Guicciardini, Francesco. Histoire des guerres et choses advenues en la chrestienté, soubs Charles VIII. roy de France: & principalement celles des Françoys en Italie. Prise & tirée des grandes histoires de messire Françoys Guichardin. Paris: Bernardino Torresano, 1568

8vo (170 x 110 mm). Roman type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: †⁶ A-Z⁸ Aa-Ff⁸ (†6 a blank, lacking Ff6-8): 235 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page, headpi🍌eces, ornaments, decorated initials, device of Jean🧔 Dallier at end. (Dampstaining, stray spots, small hole to outer margin of I8.)

binding: Contemporary limp vellum with yapp edges (175 x 125 mm), traces of two pairs of ties, title in ink at 🍃head of spine and head-edge. (A few tears and exposures.)

provenance: Unidentified owner, inscription, “E.D.,” in ink at lower margin of B1 — unidentified owner, obliterated purple inkstamp, “Semin(aire) ...,” on title-page (nineteenth-century). acquisition: Purchased from Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Worcester, 1993. references: UCLA 1065; Renouard 298/17