SABELLICO, Mark Anthony (1436-1506). Exemplorum libri decem. Venice: Gabiano, 1507. First posthumous edition, with a preface by Giovanni Battista Egnazio, of the ten books of treatises by Sabellico, celebrated Venetian historian and librarian of the collection of Greek manuscripts preserved in the Doge's Palace in Venice from the bequest of Cardinal Bessarione and the sack of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204. 4to, (208 x 157mm). Woodcut initials (gatherings N and Q with light waterstains to lower right margin, occasional foxing). 20th century vellum binding. Provenance: several old ownership inscriptions to title page, partly erased. (1)