[Post-incunabula]. LUCAIN. Pharsalia cu[m] annotationibus in - Lot 123

[Post-incunabula]. LUCAIN. Pharsalia cu[m] annotationibus in margine adiectis que[m] brevis co[m]mentarii vice essa possunt. Antuerpiae, apud Michaelem Hilleni, 1528. In-4, [168] f. [sign. A-Z4 Aa-Tt4], contemporary brown calf, 5-ribbed spine and mute, boards decorated with a cold frame formed by a roulette with portraits in medallions, another central roulette forming a rhombus, and a central fleuron (upper bit split, 2 boxes replaced on the spine, corners restored without finesse, cracks to the boards, renewed endpapers; qq. rare marg. flecks, worm damage in margin of quire e to end, one corner damage in margin of f. kk). A rare edition, only 4 copies have been located in the USTC. Carefully composed, it is printed on a 25-line column, with comments in the margins. The title page features a fine woodcut frame. The first 28 leaves (books I and II) show numerous careful old annotations. Old signatures on the title; handwritten mention of acquisition in 1528 and ex-dono dated 1814, on a leaf mounted on the flyleaf. (USTC 407341; Nijhoff-Kronenberg 1384).