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PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS, CAIUS [i. e., Pliny the Younger].
Epistolaru[m] libri decem.
[24], 525, [3]
pages, including final leaf with Aldine device
on verso. 8vo, 163x98 mm, contemporary English blind-stamped calf, with twin impres-
sions of panel of John the Baptist (front cover) and the Annunciation (rear cover), expertly
rebacked; light soiling and minor stains on title, early underscoring and marginalia toward
end, contents otherwise clean; title and author lettered in ink on fore edges.
(
Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, November 1508)
[2,500/3,500]
FIRST ALDINE AND FIRST COMPLETE EDITION
,
containing the first Aldine colophon to
announce the partnership of Aldus and his father-in-law Andrea Torresani. Renouard, page
53(3);
New UCLA 100; Oldham, Blind Panels ST 25, BIB 12. From the library of the
traveller and manuscript collector Robert Curzon (1810-73), with his signature dated Ch[rist]
Ch[urch, Oxford] 1829.
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PLINIUS SECUNDUS, CAIUS [i. e., Pliny the Elder].
Historiae naturalis.
[48],
314 [
i. e,. 308]; 303, [1]; 295, [1]; [252] leaves. 4 volumes. 8vo, 154-56x91-93 mm (Volumes
1-3), 146
x97 mm (Volume 4), 17th-century English calf, rebacked retaining most of the
original backstrips, with modern calf lettering pieces; 17th-century scored inscriptions on
titles, underscoring and partly cropped marginalia throughout, wormhole in blank lower
outer corners toward end of Volume 3; author and title lettered in ink on fore edges. Later
17
th-/early 18th-century ownership inscription of Hugh Todd; bookplates of the historian
Louis Francis Salzmann (1878-1971) dated 1899.
(
Venice: Heirs of Aldus and Andrea of Asola), 1536-35-36-38
[1,500/2,500]
FIRST ALDINE EDITION
,
SELDOM FOUND COMPLETE
.
According to inscriptions on the titles,
the marginal notes in this set are copied from Philemon Holland’s 1635 English translation.
Renouard, pages 114(5), 115(1), 115(2), 116(1); New UCLA 280, 1034.
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