1535 - Leaf from the Supplementum Supplementi de le Chroniche (Suppliementum Supplements to the Chronicle) of Giacomo Filippo Foresti

Disbound

1535 · Venice, Italy

by Giacomo Filippo Foresti
Venice, Italy: Bernardo Bindoni, 1535. Disbound. Very good. Giacomo Filippo Foresti first published his Supplement at Venice in 1483. It was a popular universal chronicle of its time and reprinted several times. It mixes mythological, historical, and Christian figures and treating all on an equal footing. It contains chapters on the Sibyls, the Trojan War and other similar topics. It is noteworthy for its illustrations of many cities of the world.

This leaf (8" x 11½") is from the 1535 edition printed in Vence by Bernardino Bindoni and features a woodcut depicting "Alessandria (Alexandria) Citta grandissima in Egytto (Egypt)" . (truncated)
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