Berosi sacerdotis chaldaici, antiquitatum italiae ac totius orbis libri quinque.
Antwerp, Jean Steelsius, 1552.
In-8, 24 ff.n.ch., 748 pp. and 22 ff.n.ch.: flexible wove vellum, gilt fillet, central gilt medallion decorated with scrolls and grotesques with a monogram (different on the covers), smooth spine decorated, gilt edges (contemporary binding).
Famous collection of so-called Chaldean Antiquities, a collection of allegedly recovered fragments of Greek and Roman authors, made up from scratch by the Dominican monk Giovanni Nanni († 1502), an Italian humanist and historian better known as Annius of Viterbo.
The first edition of this trick was published in Rome in 1498. (Quérard, Supercheries, I, p. 518.) A very pure
copy, in gold vellum, with the number and emblem of Denis de Sallo.
Denis de Sallo (1626-1669) was an adviser to the Parliament of Paris and founder of the Journal des savants.
Text set. Handwritten ex-libris at the top of the title, dated 1744.
Minimal angular dampening on a few leaves. Small paper cut on the edge of the M6 leaf, without loss of text.
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