Apr 12, 2010 - Sale 2210

Sale 2210 - Lot 6

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(ALDINE PRESS.) Liburnio, Niccolò. Le occorrenze humane. [8], 147 [i. e., 146], [2] leaves, including penultimate register/colophon leaf and final leaf with Aldine device on verso. 8vo, old vellum; title lightly spotted, with signature of Francisco de Saa de Meneses(?) dated London, 1657, light dampstaining in upper outer corners toward end. Signature of Patrizio Francesco Righi dated 1734; bookplates of the classical scholar Thomas Gaisford (1779-1855) and Charles F. Roth. Venice: Sons of Aldus, 1546

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first edition of a collection of writings on various subjects, with remarks on contemporary scholars, collectors, and libraries, including the royal library in Paris. Adams L653; Gamba 1478; Renouard, page 135.