Description
Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) M.F. Quintilianus. [De institutione oratoria], edited by Andrea Navagero and Giovanni Battista Ramusio, collation: *4 a-z A-E8 F6 (*4 blank), italic type, woodcut printer's device to title and final verso, initial spaces with guide-letters, preliminaries stained and foxed, occasional spotting elsewhere, modern morocco, gilt, small 4to (196 x 120mm.), [Venice], [House of Aldus & Andrea Torresani], [August, 1514].
⁂ Scarce and important first Aldine edition of the complete text of this work on oratory.
Provenance: 'I.B.X.' (ink initials beneath colophon).
Literature: Adams Q52; Ahmanson-Murphy 124; Renouard, Alde, 68:5; EDIT 16 CNCE 54150.
Lot 20
Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) M.F. Quintilianus. [De institutione oratoria], 1514.
Hammer Price: £650
Description
Quintilianus (Marcus Fabius) M.F. Quintilianus. [De institutione oratoria], edited by Andrea Navagero and Giovanni Battista Ramusio, collation: *4 a-z A-E8 F6 (*4 blank), italic type, woodcut printer's device to title and final verso, initial spaces with guide-letters, preliminaries stained and foxed, occasional spotting elsewhere, modern morocco, gilt, small 4to (196 x 120mm.), [Venice], [House of Aldus & Andrea Torresani], [August, 1514].
⁂ Scarce and important first Aldine edition of the complete text of this work on oratory.
Provenance: 'I.B.X.' (ink initials beneath colophon).
Literature: Adams Q52; Ahmanson-Murphy 124; Renouard, Alde, 68:5; EDIT 16 CNCE 54150.