Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 6

Price Realized: $ 292
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
MANUZIO, ALDO, the Younger; et al. Orthographiae ratio. 800; 167, [41] pages. 8vo, 141x97 mm, late 17th-century panelled calf, rebacked, quite worn overall, spine ends chipped, front cover detached with front free endpaper and title adhered; margins trimmed close touching some headlines, marginal foxing and toning, scattered stains at beginning and end, old inscriptions on title and last page. Venice: [Paolo Manuzio], 1566

Additional Details

Second edition, substantially enlarged, of a treatise on Latin spelling and punctuation originally published in 1561, when the author was 14. Renouard, page 201(12); Ahmanson-Murphy 759.