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PRISCIANUS.
Libri omnes. De octo partibus orationibus XVI deq[ue]
earundem constructione II
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and other texts]. [14], 299, [3] leaves, including blanks
²[
pi]6 and P4, and colophon leaf. 4to, 212x131 mm, contemporary limp vellum from a
Latin manuscript document; light marginal dampstaining, repaired marginal wormholes in
front and rear endleaves. Verses and notes in Latin and Italian in 16th-century hand on
endleaves.
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Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, May 1527)
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QUINTILIANUS, MARCUS FABIUS.
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De institutione oratoria.]
Edited by
Andrea Navagero and Giovanni Battista Ramusio. [4], 230 leaves. 8vo, 213x132 mm, con-
temporary Venetian brown morocco over wooden boards, gilt-tooled to panel design with
border formed by repeated arabesque tool around center fleuron, brass catches and clasps
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one of the latter defective); light marginal soiling and stains on title and last page, faded
early inscription on title, contents otherwise clean, front free endpaper loose; gilt edges,
gauffered to floral pattern.
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Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, August 1514)
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WIDE
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MARGINED COPY
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QUINTILIANUS, MARCUS FABIUS.
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De institutione oratoria.]
Edited by
Andrea Navagero and Giovanni Battista Ramusio. [4], 230 leaves. 8vo, 203x126 mm, 18th-
century speckled calf gilt, spine ends chipped; contents clean apart from light foxing on
title and ink marginal markings in table of contents.
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Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, August 1514)
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FIRST ALDINE EDITION
.
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