Lot 5
Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) M.F. Quintilianus. [De institutione oratoria], first Aldine edition, [Venice], [House of Aldus & Andrea Torresani], [August, 1514].
Hammer Price: £1,200
Description
Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) M.F. Quintilianus. [De institutione oratoria], [edited by Andrea Navagero & Giovanni Battista Ramusio], collation: *4 a-z A-E8 F6, italic type, woodcut printer's device to title and final verso, initial spaces with guide-letters, *4 blank, some text marking with brown pencil, title with small worm trace in blank upper inner corner and with faded small armorial ink stamp in lower margin, some spotting or foxing and staining, lightly browned, 18th century vellum over boards, burgundy morocco label to spine, spine chipped and creased, but holding firm, little stained and marked, large 8vo (209 x 131mm.), [Venice], [House of Aldus & Andrea Torresani], [August, 1514].
⁂ First Aldine edition of the complete text of this work on oratory. Here edited by the humanists Andrea Navagero and Giovanni Battista Ramusio, with Aldus dedicating the edition to the latter.
Provenance: Bibliotheca Giuliari (engraved armorial bookplate to front pastedown); 'Purchased, Venice, chez Alfredo ?Rampi, 27/6/55' (pencil note to rear pastedown); thereafter remaining with our vendor.
Literature: Adams Q52; Ahmanson-Murphy 124; Renouard 68:5; EDIT 16 CNCE 54150.
Description
Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) M.F. Quintilianus. [De institutione oratoria], [edited by Andrea Navagero & Giovanni Battista Ramusio], collation: *4 a-z A-E8 F6, italic type, woodcut printer's device to title and final verso, initial spaces with guide-letters, *4 blank, some text marking with brown pencil, title with small worm trace in blank upper inner corner and with faded small armorial ink stamp in lower margin, some spotting or foxing and staining, lightly browned, 18th century vellum over boards, burgundy morocco label to spine, spine chipped and creased, but holding firm, little stained and marked, large 8vo (209 x 131mm.), [Venice], [House of Aldus & Andrea Torresani], [August, 1514].
⁂ First Aldine edition of the complete text of this work on oratory. Here edited by the humanists Andrea Navagero and Giovanni Battista Ramusio, with Aldus dedicating the edition to the latter.
Provenance: Bibliotheca Giuliari (engraved armorial bookplate to front pastedown); 'Purchased, Venice, chez Alfredo ?Rampi, 27/6/55' (pencil note to rear pastedown); thereafter remaining with our vendor.
Literature: Adams Q52; Ahmanson-Murphy 124; Renouard 68:5; EDIT 16 CNCE 54150.