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HORATIUS FLACCUS, QUIN-
TUS.
Poemata omnia.
[7] (
of [8], 189,
[3]
leaves, including colophon leaf, penul-
timate blank, and final leaf with Aldine
device on verso; lacks blank A8. 8vo,
155
x94 mm, 16th-century French olive
morocco gilt with triple fillet border on
covers, flat spine stamped with author’s
name and with the arms and device of
Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon (1520-90),
expert restoration to joints; contents
clean; gilt edges. 19th-century bookplate
of H. Lefuel.
(
Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of
Asola, November 1519)
[1,500/2,500]
Third Aldine edition. Following the assassina-
tion of Henry III in 1589, the Cardinal de
Bourbon was proclaimed King of France by the
Catholic League, but was imprisoned by the
late King’s nephew and died in confinement
the following year. Renouard, page 88(10);
New UCLA 184; Olivier 2617, stamps 3
and 4.
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JUVENALIS, DECIMUS JUNIUS;
and PERSIUS FLACCUS,AULUS.
[
Satyrae.]
[78]
leaves. 8vo, 162x97 mm, early 19th-
century russia, decorated paper endleaves;
minor marginal stains on title, slight ad-
hesion on b3v and b4r affecting a few letters.
(
Venice: House of Aldus, August 1501)
[3,000/5,000]
FIRST ALDINE EDITION
.
Renouard, page
29(6);
New UCLA 44. From the libraries of
the traveller and manuscript collector Robert
Curzon (1810-73), with his signature dated
Ch[rist] Ch[urch, Oxford] 1829; Loxwood
House, with shelf label; and W. R. Jeudwine
(1920-84),
with his bookplate (sale, Bloomsbury,
18
September 1984, lot 80).
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