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PIUS II (Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, 1405-1464; Pope from 1458). Opuscula de duobus amantibus et de remedio amantibus cum epistola retractatoria ad quendam Karolum. Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, [ca 1490]. 4 o (198 x 141 mm). Collation : AAa 8 BBb-CCc 6 DDc 8 . 28 leaves. 36 lines and headlines. Gothic types 10:155 (title and headings), 7:80 (text). 2- to 4-line initial spaces. (Blank portion of last leaf and corner of DDd7 renewed, some browning to text.) 19th-century red morocco gilt (rubbing to joints and corners). Provenance : Sir John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831), Syston Park Library (armorial and monogrammed bookplates) -- unidentified armorial bookplate (on title) -- G. Steevens (typed name on verso of title) -- Estelle Doheny (paper bookplate; purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, Los Angeles, 1 November 1943) -- donated to SMS 1943. An early edition of one of the first novels ever printed commonly called Eurialus and Lucretia. BMC I,296 (IA.4950); H *219; Voulliéme 950; Goff P-683.