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MANUTIUS, ALDUS, the Elder.
Institutionum grammaticarum libri
quatuor.
Aldine woodcut device printed in red. Some use of Greek and Hebrew types.
[214]
leaves, with early manuscript foliation. 4to, 207x148 mm, unrestored contemporary
1
/
4
blind-ruled calf, wooden boards with 2 catches and clasps, stains on front portion of
spine, few small wormholes in front joint, partial split between front free endpaper and
title; wormhole in blank lower margin of title and next 2 leaves, repaired clean tear in q6,
scattered early marginalia; early calligraphic title in ink on fore and bottom edges. Early
manuscript monogram S. G. P. on title; remnant of 19th-century Salis-Soglio-Mayenfeld
armorial bookplate.
(
Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, December 1514)
[3,000/5,000]
Third Aldine edition, and the last published in the author’s lifetime, of a Latin grammar con-
cluding with an introduction to the elements of Greek and Hebrew. Renouard, page 69(10);
New UCLA 111.
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[
MANUTIUS, ALDUS, the Elder.]
Contenta: De Literis Graecis ac
Diphthongis, & quemadmodum ad nos veniant . . . Introductio perbrevis ad
Hebraicam linguam.
[20]
leaves.
BOUND AFTER
:
GAZA, THEODORUS.
Gramma-
ticae institutionis liber primus.
Latin translation by Desiderius Erasmus; edited by
Beatus Rhenanus. Title within woodcut historiated architectural border by Hans Holbein
the Younger; 4-part woodcut decorative border on verso, repeated and on I2r and Q1r.
[72]
leaves.
AND
:
LUCIAN of Samosata.
Deorum dialogi numero 70.
Greek text with
Latin translation by Ottmar Nachtgall. Title and a2v-a3r printed in red and black. [84]
leaves. Together, 3 volumes in one. 4to, 208x152 mm, modern morocco with well-pre-
served contemporary blind-tooled covers by the Cambridge binder Nicholas Spierinck
laid down, employing the same fantastic animal roll and fleuron tool found on the binding
of lot 49; contents generally clean; 20th-century owner’s handwritten catalogue description
tipped to front flyleaf.
(
Hagenau: Thomas Anshelm), [circa 1518];
(
Basel: Johannes Froben, November 1516);
Strassburg: Johann Schott, 1515
[3,000/5,000]
SAMMELBAND OF THREE SCARCE EARLY
16
TH
-
CENTURY TEXTS FOR THE STUDY OF
GREEK
,
comprising a separate reprint of the appendix to Aldus’s Institutionum grammaticarum
libri quatuor; the translation by Erasmus of the first book of Theodorus Gaza’s influential
grammar, one of the earliest Greek books printed by Froben, including Greek and Latin dia-
logues by the editor for school use; and Lucian’s Dialogues of the Gods, satirizing the deities of
Greek mythology, one of the earliest works in Greek printed in Germany. VD16 M759,
T800, L2955; Hoffmann II, 538; Oldham, English Blind-Stamped Bindings AN.f(2), 115.
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MANUTIUS, PAULUS.
In epistolas Ciceronis ad Atticum . . . commentar-
ius.
[6], 469, [3]
pages, including final leaf with Aldine device on verso. 8vo, 155x96 mm,
17
th-century vellum with morocco lettering piece; minor spotting on title, occasional light
marginal dampstaining; red and blue sprinkled edges.
Venice: (Sons of Aldus), 1547
[400/600]
FIRST EDITION
.
Renouard, page 140(6); New UCLA 365.
