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INCUNABULA] APPIAN OF ALEXANDRIA. [Historia Romana]. . Venice: Bernhard Maler, Erhard Ratdolt and Petrus Loeslein, 1477. Two volumes bound as one in full red morocco by Riviere, all edges gilt. 11 inches (18 cm); 344 leaves, with the preliminary blanks to both books. 32 lines to the page, white-on-black woodcut border on the title leaves of both parts; 9-line white-on-black woodcut initials throughout. Front board detached; withal a clean unpressed copy with good margins; occasional neat marginalia in an early hand (with fairly substantial notations on the blank verso of the final leaf of the first book and on the preliminary blank to the second). This edition of De Bellis Civilibus is renowned for the beauty of the borders and initials. The first border resembles that on Ratdolt's famous Euclid of 1482. Goff A-928; GKW 2290; Hain-Copinger 1307; Proctor 4367. C