JACOBUS PHILIPPUS BERGOMENSIS. NOVISSIME HYSTORIA OMNIUM REPERCUSSIONS. VENICE: 1503

Folio (315 x 215 mm).  (462) ff. including final blank, woodcut Pallavicini arms in red and black on title,floriated initials, red capital strokes throughout, printed marginalia and timeline in gutter, 4 full-page woodcuts in ornamental borders, and 89 woodcut city views in text including Milan, Genoa, Rome, Venice and Verona, contemporary marginal annotations; title re-margined, with some thumbing and soiling, next seven leaves have outer margins restored and some waterstaining and repairs at lower gutter, one index leaf with significant text loss, some light spotting or staining to margins of last few signatures. Modern half calf and old boards; scuffed.

Adams F-748; Mortimer Italian 195; Brunet I.787; Sander I.920; Harrisse p. 87.

A Classic of Renaissance book illustration and the first history of the world to include the discoveries of Columbus.