Polybii historici primo bellp punico Leonardo Aretino interprete, libri tres. Leonardi Aretini De temporibus suis, liber vnus. Plutarchi Parallelia Guarino Veronensi paraphraste opusculum aureum
This is a 1512 Paris printing by J. Petit of Polybius on the First Punic War in Leonardo Bruni's Latin translation, with Bruni's own history and Plutarch's Parallel Lives in Guarino's paraphrase, made for humanist scholars and students. The four woodcut initials shown are decorated capitals in a Renaissance style, with a large letter filled by interlaced foliage, flowers and dense hatched ground set within a border, which a designer could adapt for ornamental drop caps and framed monograms.
