Thucydides, De bello Peloponnesium Atheniensiumque, Paris, 1513, Roman armorial brown morocco with the Della Rovere arms

2 works in one volume, folio (281 x 195 mm). Roman type, 45 lines plus headline. collation: (1) A-P⁸ Q⁶: 125 leaves (of 126, without final blank). Title within woodcut border with woodcut Ascensius device, woodcut white on black criblé initials. (2) A-I⁸ K-L⁶: 84 leaves (last leaf blank). Title with woodcut Ascensius device, woodcut white on black criblé initials. (Occasional light marginal soiling.)

binding: Contemporary Roman blind-tooled morocco (287 x 209 mm), outer border of a repeated leafy tool, smaller leafy tool across top and bottom of frame, small spray of flowers corner stamps, central eight-pointed star made from triple blind fillets, with central gilt armorial roundel with the Della Rovere arms surmounted by a cardinal's hat, spine with blind tooling in compartments, stubs from four pairs of ties, some deckle edges. (Binding somewhat rubbed with a few wormholes, spine and corners damaged and repaired, joints repaired and weak, front flyleaf removed.)

provenance: Della Rovere, arms of a cardinal on binding — Jean Fürstenberg (1890-1982), red gilt booklabel — Martin Breslauer Inc., catalogue 110 (New York, 1992), item 17. acquisition: Purchased in 1992 from Martin Breslauer Inc., New York. references: BP16 102389 & 101532; USTC 144087 & 180434; exhibited: Exposition de reliures de la Renaissance : collection Jean Furstenberg: 30 September 1961 (Paris, 1961), no. 107; Musée d'art et d'histoire, Collection Jean Furstenberg: 3 mai-5 juin 1966 (Geneva, 1966), no. 5, orange printed label on inside front cover