1551 PICCOLOMINI Opera quae extant omnia ILLUSTARTED w/ MAPS antique 16th CENT.

Piccolomini, Aeneas Sylvius (Pope Pius II).

Opera quae extant omnia, nunc demum post corruptissimas editiones summa diligentia castigata & in unum corpus redacta ...
His quoque accessit Gnomologia ex omnibus Sylvii operibus collecta (per Conradum Licosthenein).


Basel, (Henricus Petri; 1551)


With woodcut printer's mark at the title (repeated on the sheet before the appendix) and 19 woodcut maps in the text.

Full leather binding , spine with raised bands and title in gilt, one (of 2) defective clasp

-VD 16 P 3093. Adams P 1333. Bietenholz, Italian humanism and the heyday of printing in Basel, p. 63 f. -

First and still authoritative complete edition.

Includes interesting maps, among them Central Europe, Spain, Portugal, Great Britain, etc.,  also maps of German territories: Bavaria, Hesse, Franconia, and Schleswig-Holstein.

Some wear of binding, very good interior

Thick small folio. Size 8 by 12"

Text in Latin
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Pope Pius II (Latin: Pius PP. II, Italian: Pio II), born Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini (1405 – 1464), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 August 1458 to his death in 1464.

Aeneas Silvius was an author, diplomat, and orator, and private secretary of Antipope Felix V and then the Emperor Frederick III, and then Pope Eugenius IV.[1] He participated in the Council of Basel, but left it in 1443 to follow Frederick, whom he reconciled to the Roman obedience. He became Bishop of Trieste in 1447, Bishop of Siena in 1450, and a cardinal in 1456.

He was a Renaissance humanist with an international reputation. Aeneas Silvius' longest and most enduring work is the story of his life, the Commentaries, which was the first autobiography of a pope to have been published. It appeared posthumously, in 1584, 120 years after his death.
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