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Demosthenes. Orationes duæ & Sexaginta, 2 parts in 1 vol., woodcut printer's device to titles, initial spaces with guide-letter, with final blank, a few instances of early ink marginalia, occasional staining or light browning, sig.T at end repaired tear within text without loss, 20th century vellum, [Adams D260; Ahmanson-Murphy 191; Renouard, Alde, 47:7 (note); EDIT 16 CNCE 16733], folio, [Venice], [Aldus Manutius, but Andrea Torresani], [November, 1504, but c.1520].
⁂ The reprint of the handsomely printed editio princeps of 1504. The greatest of the Athenian orators Demosthenes was studied by Cicero, and Quintilian encouraged students of rhetoric not only to study his speeches, but to commit them to memory.
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Demosthenes. Orationes duæ & Sexaginta, 2 parts in 1 vol., woodcut printer's device to titles, initial spaces with guide-letter, with final blank, a few instances of early ink marginalia, occasional staining or light browning, sig.T at end repaired tear within text without loss, 20th century vellum, [Adams D260; Ahmanson-Murphy 191; Renouard, Alde, 47:7 (note); EDIT 16 CNCE 16733], folio, [Venice], [Aldus Manutius, but Andrea Torresani], [November, 1504, but c.1520].
⁂ The reprint of the handsomely printed editio princeps of 1504. The greatest of the Athenian orators Demosthenes was studied by Cicero, and Quintilian encouraged students of rhetoric not only to study his speeches, but to commit them to memory.
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