Suetonius, vitae duodecim Caesarum, Lyon, Guillaume Huyon [for heirs of Baldazare de Gabiano?], 1520, eighteenth-century vellum over pasteboards

Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius. Caij Suetonij Tranquilli vitae duodecim Caesarum diligentissime recognitae cum indice alphabetico nuperrime addito. Lyon: Guillaume Huyon [for heirs of Baldazare de Gabiano?], 13 January 1520 (=1521 n.s.)

Reprint of the counterfeit of 1508 (Shaw 28).

8vo (156 x 98 mm). Italic type, 32 lines plus headline. collation: a-z⁸: 184 leaves (z8 a blank). Title-page with decorative woodcut border, decorated initials. (Intermittent spotting.)

binding: Eighteenth-century vellum over pasteboards (159 x 104 mm), band for endbands laced through covers at head and tail, spine with four compartments, plain edges speckled brown. (Small marks to covers.)

provenance: Unidentified owner, inscription "Io. Batista Tequistan" (?) dated 1696 on title-page — unidentified owner, presentation inscription on upper endleaf "Carissimo amico suo Curt Hillig d.d.d. Kettenbeil, Lipsiae, MDCCCLXXXII" — Curt Hillig (1865-1939), inkstamp "C. Hillig" [jurist, d. 28. April 1939 in Leipzig] — unidentified owner, ex libris "Ex libris P. Edevardi Merlo a patruo Donavalario" (?), within typographical ornamental frame — Reiss & Sohn Königstein, 26-27 October 2010, lot 941. acquisition: Purchased at Reiss & Sohn via Halwas. references: UCLA 1167; Renouard 315/55; Shaw 36; Baudrier, VII, 164; Gültlingen, III, p. 114: 17; FB 87072; USTC 145356