Lot 215
Dionysius, Halicarnassensis. Antiquitates Romanae, Editio princeps, Treviso, Bernardinus Celerius, 24 or 25 February, 1480.
Estimate: £4,000 - 6,000
Description
Dionysius, Halicarnassensis. Antiquitates Romanae, translated by Lampugninus Biragus, collation: [a10 b-g8 h-i6 k-z A-O8 P6], 299 ff. (of 300, lacking initial blank), 37 lines, Roman type, initial spaces with guide-letters, occasional early ink marginalia, including fingerposts, some spotting or light spoiling, later vellum, 19th century black leather label to spine, little worn at spine ends and corners, lightly soiled, rubbed, folio (281 x 196mm.), Treviso, Bernardinus Celerius, 1480.
⁂ A wide-margined copy of the editio princeps of this Roman history to the First Punic War. It is the first publication by Celerius at his press in Treviso, having earlier worked at Venice and Padua, returning to the former at the end of 1480. The translator based his work on manuscripts from the library of Pope Paul II, to whom the work is dedicated.
Provenance: 'Colleg. Neap. Catal, inscrip.'; 'Pro Mag. Hum.' (early ink inscriptions to upper margin of first f.); Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (engraved armorial bookplate to front pastedown).
Literature: BMC VI, 895; Goff D-250; HC 6239.
Description
Dionysius, Halicarnassensis. Antiquitates Romanae, translated by Lampugninus Biragus, collation: [a10 b-g8 h-i6 k-z A-O8 P6], 299 ff. (of 300, lacking initial blank), 37 lines, Roman type, initial spaces with guide-letters, occasional early ink marginalia, including fingerposts, some spotting or light spoiling, later vellum, 19th century black leather label to spine, little worn at spine ends and corners, lightly soiled, rubbed, folio (281 x 196mm.), Treviso, Bernardinus Celerius, 1480.
⁂ A wide-margined copy of the editio princeps of this Roman history to the First Punic War. It is the first publication by Celerius at his press in Treviso, having earlier worked at Venice and Padua, returning to the former at the end of 1480. The translator based his work on manuscripts from the library of Pope Paul II, to whom the work is dedicated.
Provenance: 'Colleg. Neap. Catal, inscrip.'; 'Pro Mag. Hum.' (early ink inscriptions to upper margin of first f.); Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (engraved armorial bookplate to front pastedown).
Literature: BMC VI, 895; Goff D-250; HC 6239.
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