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Jacobus Philippus Bergomensis (Giacomo Filippo Foresti) - Supplementum Chronicorum. Omnes fere Historias quae ab orbe condito hactenus gestae sunt, iucunda admodum...di brevitate complectens...quae ab anno 1500 ad annum 1535. Parisiis, Apud Simonem Colineum 1535. In-folio, full sow skin on contemporary wooden boards decorated with cold-stamped decoration, title, 18 ff, 433 ff, 1 ff (printer's mark). 2 large woodcuts (Adam et Eve, l'Annociation) , 11 woodcuts in the text. Sought-after and rare edition, complete with folio (folio 255) about Papesse Jeanne, almost always removed for censorship reasons; on folio 412, the discovery of America is mentioned, "De quatuor permaximis insulis in India extra orbem nuper inventis...". Graesse I, 341. Mortimer, 195. Adams, 750; Essling, 349; Sabin, 25086. Worn but solid contemporary binding.