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CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS.
Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad
Quintu[m] fratrem . . . Pauli Manutii in easdem epistolas scholia.
[2], 331, [11];
[24]
leaves. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo, 191x112 mm, 19th-century red morocco by
Trautz-Bauzonnet, few scratches on front cover; contents unobtrusively washed; gilt edges,
faintly marbled.
Venice: (Sons of Aldus, August), 1540
[6,000/9,000]
LARGE
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PAPER COPY
,
printed on heavy stock with the book block measuring 50 mm in thick-
ness. Renouard, page 120(7); New UCLA 287. From the libraries of Alfred and Henry
Huth, with their booklabel (sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 7 June 1912, lot 1616); and
the classical scholar William Smith Watt (1913-2002; sale, Bloomsbury, 25 September
1997,
lot 261).
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CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS.
Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium libri IIII
[
and other texts]. 179, [1]; 136 [i. e., 137], [1]; 56; 45, [3] leaves. 4 parts in 2 volumes, bound
in one. 8vo, 162x100 mm, contemporary Wittenberg(?) binding of blind-tooled pigskin
over wooden boards with Spes/Fides/Caritas roll dated 1551 incorporating monogram C
G around center panel containing 2 vertical rows of fleurs-de-lis, front cover additionally
stamped B B T at top, brass catches and clasps; first title lightly soiled, contents otherwise
clean. Early ownership inscriptions of Caspar Textorius and Melchior Adam Pastorius.
Venice: (Sons of Aldus, January), 1550
[1,000/2,000]
Fifth Aldine edition of Cicero’s rhetorical writings, edited by Paulus Manutius, reprinted from
the fourth Aldine of 1546. Renouard, page 148(5); New UCLA 391; Haebler, Rollen- und
Plattenstempel I, 137-39 (tentatively localizing the roll to a Wittenberg workshop, not indenti-
fying it conclusively with a specific binder).
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