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Oratores Graeci. Orationes horum Rhetorum, parts 1 & 2 (of 3), titles in Greek and Latin and with woodcut printer's device, initial spaces with guide-letters, n4 blank, part 2 marginal wormholes, some staining and light browning, [Adams 0244; Ahmanson-Murphy 112; Renouard. Alde, 60:1; EDIT 16 CNCE 37441], [Venice], [Aldus Manutius & Andrea Torresani], April, 1513 bound after Rhetores Graeci. In Aphthonii Progymnasmata Commentarii Innominati autoris..., part 2 (of 2), title and verso of otherwise blank final f. with woodcut printer's device, initial spaces with guide-letters, title with early ink names including 'Joannis Adolfi a Glauburg' and with erased ink stamp to foot of verso, a couple of marginal wormholes, [Adams R447; Ahmanson-Murphy 104; Renouard, Alde, 54:4; EDIT 16 CNCE 2146], Aldus Manutius, May, 1509, together 2 works in 1 vol. (3 parts in total), contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, metal clasps (lacking 1), repaired hole to head of joint of lower cover, corners bumped, soiled, folio.
⁂ Some of the most important publications of the Aldine press, which provided editiones principes of the Attic orators.
Lot 17
Oratores Graeci. Orationes horum Rhetorum, 1513.
Estimate: £3,000 - 4,000
Description
Oratores Graeci. Orationes horum Rhetorum, parts 1 & 2 (of 3), titles in Greek and Latin and with woodcut printer's device, initial spaces with guide-letters, n4 blank, part 2 marginal wormholes, some staining and light browning, [Adams 0244; Ahmanson-Murphy 112; Renouard. Alde, 60:1; EDIT 16 CNCE 37441], [Venice], [Aldus Manutius & Andrea Torresani], April, 1513 bound after Rhetores Graeci. In Aphthonii Progymnasmata Commentarii Innominati autoris..., part 2 (of 2), title and verso of otherwise blank final f. with woodcut printer's device, initial spaces with guide-letters, title with early ink names including 'Joannis Adolfi a Glauburg' and with erased ink stamp to foot of verso, a couple of marginal wormholes, [Adams R447; Ahmanson-Murphy 104; Renouard, Alde, 54:4; EDIT 16 CNCE 2146], Aldus Manutius, May, 1509, together 2 works in 1 vol. (3 parts in total), contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, metal clasps (lacking 1), repaired hole to head of joint of lower cover, corners bumped, soiled, folio.
⁂ Some of the most important publications of the Aldine press, which provided editiones principes of the Attic orators.
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