Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Cicero cu[m] comme[n]to, commentary by Josse Badius, Nicolas Chappusius, and Francesco Maturanzio, Gothic letter, title printed in red and black and woodcut printer's device (repeated on final verso) within woodcut historiated border, a few woodcut vignettes, woodcut decorative initials, first few ff. rubricated, wormed, most pronounced at beginning and end, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, endpapers wormed and detached, contemporary blind-stamped vellum over wooden boards, spine in compartments and with later ms. title label, remains of metal clasps, wormed, particularly wooden board of lower cover with some loss to it and vellum, some staining, soiled, [Not in Adams], 4to, [Lyon], [Jacques Myt for Simon Vincent], [29 April, 1514].

⁂ A rare edition, with only a handful of copies recorded by USTC, and this copy seemingly the last at auction.

Provenance: Sotheby's, 22nd April, 1971, lot 254, bought by Bernard Quaritch for a client for £19, with their commissions report loosely inserted.