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LACTANTIUS, LUCIUS CAECILIUS FIRMIANUS.
Divinarum institu-
tionum libri septem
[
and other texts]. [16], 348, [12]; [4], 48 leaves. 2 volumes in one.
8
vo, 160x97 mm, early 19th-century English green morocco with gilt Aldine device on
covers, spine darkened; contents unobtrusively washed, faded early marginalia; gilt edges,
gauffered to all-over pattern of overlapping semi-circles. Syston Park bookplate of Sir John
Hayford Thorold (173-1831).
(
Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, April 1515)
[1,000/2,000]
FIRST ALDINE EDITION
.
Renouard, page 70(2); New UCLA 132.
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LANDI, GIULIO.
La Vita di Cleopatra Reina d’Egitto.
[8], 62
leaves; lacks
blanks F8 and H7-8. 8vo, 148x94 mm, later 17th-/early 18th-century tan calf gilt, top of
spine chipped, lettering piece off; scattered cropped marginalia, light marginal dampstain-
ing toward end.
Venice: [Paulus Manutius], 1551
[800/1,200]
FIRST EDITION
and
ONLY ALDINE EDITION
.
Drawn largely from Plutarch and other classi-
cal authors, Landi’s book is apparently the first separately published biography of Cleopatra.
Renouard, page 153(18); New UCLA 421.
