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Very Good - Woodcut vignette to title, folding map of Europe (frayed to edges with small loss to margins), woodcut illustrations, woodcut printer's device to final leaf, woodcut head-pieces and initials, early 18th-century brown ink ownership inscription of George Hamilton to title (with further inscription struck-through at head), first few leaves with small hole to foot, some light spotting and browning, contemporary blindstamped sheep, central arabesque device to covers, lacking ties, some wear, upper joint split at head and foot. Adams C69
produced by the Wechel press, a leading humanist house that, unlike many Lyon/Antwerp editions of the same era, combined a corrected text, scholarly notes, and an ambitious illustration program in a portable octavo format.
8vo (16.5 × 10.5 cm). Collation: ✠⁸, A–Z⁸, Aa–Zz⁸, Aaa–Ggg⁸ (Ggg⁴), Hhh–Lll⁴, [Corrigenda]¹, [Printer’s device]¹.
Pagination: [16], 823, [38] pp. (including Corrigenda and terminal leaf with Wechel’s Pegasus device).
Complete including three natural-history plates are famous and distinctive to this Wechel series.
“Uri figura” – wild ox / aurochs (Bos primigenius).
“Bison figura” – bison.
“Alcis figura” – elk-like creature (Caesar’s description may refer to the European elk, Alces alces).
These originated in the 1513 Giocondo–Aldine Caesar and were faithfully re-cut for Wechel.
Please see photos as part of condition report
