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DANTE ALIGHIERI.
Le Terze Rime.
Aldine woodcut device on last page. [244]
leaves, including blank l2. 8vo, 152x97 mm, 19th-century gilt-panelled vellum boards with
red and black morocco lettering pieces; occasional minor marginal soiling and stains, light
soiling on title, title and next leaf reinforced in gutter. Bookplate of Clara and Irwin
Strasburger.
(
Venice: House of Aldus, August 1502)
[5,000/7,000]
FIRST ALDINE AND FIRST SMALL
-
FORMAT EDITION OF THE DIVINE COMEDY
;
second
state of the last leaf, with Aldine device within dot border on verso. Renouard, page 34(5);
New UCLA 59.5; Gamba 385.
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DANTE ALIGHIERI.
Dante col Sito, et Forma dell’Inferno.
Double-page
woodcut diagram of Hell; double- and single-page woodcut charts of the sins of Hell and
Purgatory. [2], 244, [4] leaves, including blanks l2 and H7 and final leaf with Aldine device
on verso. 8vo, 157x94 mm, 19th-century gilt-panelled green morocco with Aldine device
on covers, by Rivière, spine darkened; light soiling on title and last page. Bookplate of the
Reverend Edward Francis Witts (1813-86).
(
Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, August 1515)
[4,000/6,000]
Second Aldine edition of the Divine Comedy, and first with illustrations from this press.
Renouard, page 73(8); New UCLA 136.
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DIDYMUS.
Interpretationes et antiquae, et perquam utiles in Homeri
Iliada, nec non in Odyssea
[
with PORPHYRY,
Homericarum quaestionum liber
and
De nympharum antro in Odyssea opusculum
].
Greek text. 319, [45] leaves,
including blank R8 and final leaf with Aldine device on verso. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo,
164
x99 mm, 19th-century russet morocco gilt-tooled to panel design by Charles Lewis,
with his ticket, spine faded; contents unobtrusively washed.
(
Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, May 1521)
[1,000/2,000]
FIRST ALDINE EDITION
.
Despite the title, this edition did not include the commentary on the
Odyssey, which first appeared in 1528. Renouard, page 91(6); New UCLA 200.
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DIDYMUS.
Interpretatio in Odysseam.
Greek text. 127, [1] leaves, including
final leaf with Aldine device on verso. 8vo, 149x94 mm, 19th-century vellum boards with
morocco lettering piece, joints starting; front endpapers partly browned, old scored inscrip-
tion on title.
(
Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, June 1528)
[1,000/2,000]
FIRST ALDINE EDITION
.
Renouard, page 105(4); New UCLA 253; Hoffmann I, 547.
