Lot 11
Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Three Bookes of Duties, 1558.
Hammer Price: £2,800
Description
Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Three Bookes of Duties, to Marcus his sonne, turned out of latine into english, by Nicolas Grimalde, mostly double-column in black letter and italics, title within elaborate woodcut border, woodcut initials, neatly repaired tear to A2 running into text with loss to a few letters, M4 foxed, small worm track to last f. touching text, early ink inscriptions to title and final 2 ff., occasional light marking or soiling, 19th century tree calf, gilt, by Zaehnsdorf, spine gilt in compartments, joints a little rubbed, g.e., [STC 5282], small 8vo, Rychard Tottill, 13th April 1558.
⁂ The third of 8 sixteenth century editions of this work.
Provenance: T. ?Suffolk; Robert Deligne (ink inscriptions).
Description
Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Three Bookes of Duties, to Marcus his sonne, turned out of latine into english, by Nicolas Grimalde, mostly double-column in black letter and italics, title within elaborate woodcut border, woodcut initials, neatly repaired tear to A2 running into text with loss to a few letters, M4 foxed, small worm track to last f. touching text, early ink inscriptions to title and final 2 ff., occasional light marking or soiling, 19th century tree calf, gilt, by Zaehnsdorf, spine gilt in compartments, joints a little rubbed, g.e., [STC 5282], small 8vo, Rychard Tottill, 13th April 1558.
⁂ The third of 8 sixteenth century editions of this work.
Provenance: T. ?Suffolk; Robert Deligne (ink inscriptions).
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