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CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS.
Epistolarum ad Atticum, ad Brutum, ad
Quintum fratrem, libri XX.
[16], 331, [1]
leaves, including final leaf with Aldine
device. 8vo, 163x100 mm, 19th-century dark green morocco gilt with wreath centerpiece
on covers; light soiling and faded inscription on title, scattered early marginalia, light damp-
staining in lower outer corners toward end; gilt edges, gauffered with bands of repeating
small circles across top, fore, and bottom edges.
(
Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, June 1513)
[3,000/5,000]
FIRST ALDINE EDITION
.
Renouard, page 61(3); New UCLA 113. From the libraries of
Baron Achille Seillière (1813-73), with his bookplate (sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 29
February 1887, lot 292); George Dunn, with his bookplate (sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson &
Hodge, 3 February 1919, lot 949); and the classical scholar William Smith Watt (1913-
2002;
sale, Bloomsbury, 25 September 1997, lot 258).
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CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS.
In hoc volumine haec continentur.
Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium lib. IIII
[
and other texts]. Edited by Andrea
Navagero. [6], 244, [4] leaves, including final leaf with Aldine device; 4to, 211x132 mm,
18
th-century vellum boards with morocco lettering pieces; occasional light dampstaining
in upper margins, title backed, with light soiling and old inscriptions; blue sprinkled edges.
(
Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, 1514)
[1,500/2,500]
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of Cicero’s writings on rhetoric, with a dedicatory preface by Aldus to
Navagero complaining about the incessant intrusion of visitors interfering with his scholarly
work. Renouard, page 65(1); New UCLA 120.
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