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AUGURELLO, GIOVANNI AURELIO.
[
Poemata.]
[128]
leaves, including blank
second and penultimate leaves, and last leaf with Aldine device on verso. 8vo, 152x97 mm,
18
th-century
1
/
2
mottled calf gilt with red leather lettering piece, decorated paper paste-
downs; scattered light foxing, faint soiling on title.
(
Venice: House of Aldus, April 1505)
[2,000/3,000]
FIRST ALDINE EDITION
of a collection of odes and epistles by a humanist scholar and
alchemist (1441-1524). On K1r-K3v is a poem called Chrysopoeia, on the philosopher’s
stone, foreshadowing Augurello’s major 1515 work of the same title on the transmutation of
metals into gold. Renouard, page 49(2); New UCLA 89.
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BARKER, NICOLAS.
Aldus Manutius and the Development of Greek
Script & Type in the Fifteenth Century.
Folio, 329x227 mm, original red cloth; con-
tents clean; publisher’s red cloth slipcase. Prospectus laid in.
Sandy Hook: Chiswick Book Shop, 1985
[800/1,200]
FIRST EDITION
,
LIMITED TO
200
COPIES
.
Tipped in at the end are 4 leaves taken from the
first Aldine editions of Aristotle (Volume 4), 1497; Crastonus, Dictionarium Graecum, 1497;
Euripides, 1503; and the Septuagint, 1518.
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BARKER, NICOLAS, editor.
The Aldine Press: Catalogue of the
Ahmanson-Murphy Collection of Books by or relating to the Press in the
Library of the University of California, Los Angeles.
Folio, 304x227 mm, original
cloth; publisher’s cloth slipcase.
Berkeley, (2001)
[200/300]
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BEMBO, PIETRO.
Della Historia Vinitiana . . . libri XII.
[14], 179, [1]
leaves.
4
to, 224x164 mm, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over pasteboard with silk ties,
author and title written in humanist hand in ink on front cover, spine darkened; light mar-
ginal dampstaining on opening leaves, insignificant worming through first few leaves not
affecting text.
Venice: (Gualtero Scotto), 1552
[500/750]
FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN
,
translated by the author from his Latin original published the
year before. Gamba 130. From the library of the Fugger banking family of Augsburg, in a
binding characteristically used for Italian vernacular works in the collection, with their shelf
mark on the front free endpaper. Cf. Lehmann, Eine Geschichte der alten Fuggerbibliotheken
II, 202 (in binding described as vellum).
