ALDINE PRESS Orationes horum [infrascriptorum] rhetorum Pa

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(ALDINE PRESS.) Orationes horum [infrascriptorum] rhetorum. Greek text. Parts 1 and 2 (of 3) in one volume. [2] (of [4]), 3-197, [1] (of [3]); 162 [i. e., 163] pages; first part lacks leaf after title (end of preface/table of contents), unnumbered leaf with note to binder, and blank n4, second part lacks 3k5.6 (pages 153-56). Folio, 285x190 mm, early 20th-century green morocco gilt, rear cover partly detached; first title soiled, with large streaked ink blot, marginal numbering in pencil on a few leaves, contents otherwise generally clean. Bookplates of Lewis Andrew de la Chaumette; W. H. Thompson of Trinity College, Cambridge; Morris Morgan, with his catalogue note on front flyleaf and gilt crest on front cover; and Harvard College Library (Herbert Weir Smyth bequest, released). (Venice: Aldus [Manutius] and Andrea [Torresano], 1513)

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editio princeps of the works of the Attic orators apart from Demosthenes, whose writings were previously published by the Aldine press in 1499 and 1504. The missing third part was once present in this copy but removed, leaving the book block partly loose. Adams O244; Hoffmann III, 14; Renouard, pages 60-61.