Lot 1
Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) Institutiones oratoriae, Venice, Peregrinus de Pasqualibus, Bononiensis, 18 August, 1494.
Hammer Price: £1,100
Description
Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) Institutiones oratoriae, commentary by Laurentius Valla, Pomponius Laetus, & Johannes Sulpitius Verulanus, collation: a8 b6 c-e8 f-h6 i8 II10 k6 l8 m6 n-q8 r6 s8 t u6 x-z8 &6 A8 B-I6 K10, 246 ff. (of 248, lacking a1&2), final f. blank, 58 lines of commentary, Roman type, capital spaces, some with guide-letters, early ink marginalia in red and black, a few ff. with initial-strokes in red, a7 loose, mostly small wormholes within text, more pronounced towards end, small worm traces to inner gutters, final blank frayed and creased, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, contemporary blind-ruled calf-backed wooden boards, lacking backstrip, majority of lower board and metal clasps, upper board detached and with large split, wormholes, worn, small folio (310 x 214mm.), Venice, Peregrinus de Pasqualibus, Bononiensis, 18 August, 1494.
⁂ Scarce edition at auction of Quintilian's comprehensive treatise on classical rhetoric.
Literature: BMC V, 393; Goff Q-30; HC 13654; GW M36823; Bod-inc Q-017; BSB-Ink Q-17; ISTC iq00030000.
Description
Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) Institutiones oratoriae, commentary by Laurentius Valla, Pomponius Laetus, & Johannes Sulpitius Verulanus, collation: a8 b6 c-e8 f-h6 i8 II10 k6 l8 m6 n-q8 r6 s8 t u6 x-z8 &6 A8 B-I6 K10, 246 ff. (of 248, lacking a1&2), final f. blank, 58 lines of commentary, Roman type, capital spaces, some with guide-letters, early ink marginalia in red and black, a few ff. with initial-strokes in red, a7 loose, mostly small wormholes within text, more pronounced towards end, small worm traces to inner gutters, final blank frayed and creased, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, contemporary blind-ruled calf-backed wooden boards, lacking backstrip, majority of lower board and metal clasps, upper board detached and with large split, wormholes, worn, small folio (310 x 214mm.), Venice, Peregrinus de Pasqualibus, Bononiensis, 18 August, 1494.
⁂ Scarce edition at auction of Quintilian's comprehensive treatise on classical rhetoric.
Literature: BMC V, 393; Goff Q-30; HC 13654; GW M36823; Bod-inc Q-017; BSB-Ink Q-17; ISTC iq00030000.
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