Lot 255
Aeschines and Demosthenes, Due Orationi, Venice, heirs of Aldus Manutius, 1554; bound with 3 others by Cicero, together 4 in 1.
Hammer Price: £380
Description
Aeschines and Demosthenes, Due Orationi, collation: A-N8 O4, woodcut printer's device to title and colophon (that on colophon with some later pencil additions), lacking blanks O3&4, title with very small wormhole to blank upper fore-edge corner, Venice, heirs of Aldus Manutius, 1554 bound with Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Oratione di Cicerone, in Difesa di Milone, collation: A-D8 E6, printer's woodcut device to title and final f. verso, Venezia, heirs of Aldus Manutius, 1554 and Oratione di M.T. Cicerone in difesa di Marco Marcello, collation: A-D4, Venice, Giovan'Antonio de Nicolini da Sabbio, 1536 and La oratione XIII di M. Tullio Cicerone havuta a favore della legge Manilia, collation: A-E4, woodcut portrait vignette to title, Venice, [Venturino Ruffinelli], 1538 together 4 works in 1, initial spaces with guide-letters, seventeenth century ink ownership inscription to front endpaper, some light damp-staining, some faint browning, a few small scattered spots, endpapers defective, contemporary vellum, soiled, 8vo (c154 x 97mm.)
⁂ Literature: I. Adams A259; Ahmanson-Murphy 466; Edit 16 CNCE 327; Renouard 160:11. II. Adams CI893; Edit 16 CNCE 12321; Renouard 161:14. III. Edit 16 CNCE 14586. IV. Edit 16 CNCE 14594.
Description
Aeschines and Demosthenes, Due Orationi, collation: A-N8 O4, woodcut printer's device to title and colophon (that on colophon with some later pencil additions), lacking blanks O3&4, title with very small wormhole to blank upper fore-edge corner, Venice, heirs of Aldus Manutius, 1554 bound with Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Oratione di Cicerone, in Difesa di Milone, collation: A-D8 E6, printer's woodcut device to title and final f. verso, Venezia, heirs of Aldus Manutius, 1554 and Oratione di M.T. Cicerone in difesa di Marco Marcello, collation: A-D4, Venice, Giovan'Antonio de Nicolini da Sabbio, 1536 and La oratione XIII di M. Tullio Cicerone havuta a favore della legge Manilia, collation: A-E4, woodcut portrait vignette to title, Venice, [Venturino Ruffinelli], 1538 together 4 works in 1, initial spaces with guide-letters, seventeenth century ink ownership inscription to front endpaper, some light damp-staining, some faint browning, a few small scattered spots, endpapers defective, contemporary vellum, soiled, 8vo (c154 x 97mm.)
⁂ Literature: I. Adams A259; Ahmanson-Murphy 466; Edit 16 CNCE 327; Renouard 160:11. II. Adams CI893; Edit 16 CNCE 12321; Renouard 161:14. III. Edit 16 CNCE 14586. IV. Edit 16 CNCE 14594.
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