Xenophon, opera Xenophontis, [Lyon, Jacques Myt? for Baldazare de Gabiano? or Barthélemy Trot? 1504?], early sixteenth-century Italian brown morocco

Xenophon. In hoc volumine continentur infrascripta opera Xenophontis. [Lyon: Jacques Myt? for Baldazare de Gabiano? or Barthélemy Trot? 1504?]

Another copy.

8vo (162 x 97 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-Y⁸ AA-EE⁸ FF⁴: 220 leaves. (Title slightly soiled and worn, scattered light staining, dark stains to a few leaves.)

binding: Early sixteenth-century Italian brown morocco (169 x 108 mm), tooled in blind, border frame of repeated adorned trefoil flanked by triple fillets, central panel with vertical array of rope work tools, at sides five rose tools, traces of two clasps to lower covers (only two nails for each clasp remain), spine with three compartments with saltires formed by triple fillets, plain edges. (Somewhat rubbed and worn, spine cracked and chipping, front hinge broken, rust stains to endpapers.)

provenance: Unidentified owner, early marginalia — Baron Horace de Landau (1824–1903), ex libris (Bragaglia 2036), inventory number 53179 — Reiss & Sohn, Auktion 138: Wertvolle Bücher, Handschriften, Königstein, 26-27 October 2010, lot 944. acquisition: Purchased at Reiss & Sohn via Halwas references: UCLA 1116; Renouard 308/20; FB 91267; USTC 142970; Baudrier, VII, 17; Shaw 41