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AESCHINES; and DEMOSTHENES. Orationes quatuor inter se contrariae. Greek text. [4], 75, [1]; 112 leaves, including blank K8. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo, 157x104 mm, 17th(?)-century red morocco gilt-tooled to all-over grillwork pattern with center cartouche enclosing indistinct painted arms, minor surface wear on covers, top and bottom spine compartments restored; minor worming through first few text leaves (not impairing legibility) and blank rear endleaves, title lightly soiled. Venice: Federico Torresani, 1549
first torresani edition of the speeches of the rival 4th-century B.C. Athenian politicians and orators, bound imitating the style used on Aldine imprints in the library of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (1506-75), Spanish ambassador to Venice from 1539 to 1546. Renouard, page 145(5); New UCLA 1037; Hoffmann I, 24; cf. Hobson, Renaissance Book Collecting, pages 94 and 97.
