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LUS, CAIUS; et al.
In hoc volumine
continentur. C. Suetonij Tranquilli
XII Caesares
[
and other texts]. Edited by
Giovanni Battista Egnazio. [32], 320
leaves. 8vo, 160x90 mm, 18th-century
Italian vellum with morocco lettering
piece; title lightly soiled, with short
repaired clean tear, light soiling on title,
faded early underscoring and marginalia,
marginal dampstaining at end.
(
Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of
Asola, August 1516)
[1,000/2,000]
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.
Renouard, page
77(5);
New UCLA 147. With the armorial
bookplate of Joseph Smith (1682-1770),
British consul at Venice, whose library was
bought by King George III in 1765.
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leaves. 4to,
218
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Roger Payne with Wodhull arms on front
cover, rebacked retaining most of original
backstrip; light foxing and marginal
dampstaining on opening leaves, erased
inscription and repaired hole in blank
lower margin of title.
(
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.
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(1710-56);
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at Baker and Leigh by the poet, translator, and
bibliophile Michael Wodhull (1740-1816),
bound for him, with his notes and signature
dated 1778; by descent to John Edmund
Severne (sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge,
21
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