Nov 12, 2013 - Sale 2330

Sale 2330 - Lot 10

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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
RICHERIUS, LUDOVICUS COELIUS. Sicuti antiquarum lectionum commentarios concinnarat olim vindex Ceselius, ita nunc eosdem per incuriam interceptos reparavit Lodovicus Caelius Rhodiginus. Title printed in red. [80], 862, [6] pages, including last leaf, blank except for Aldine device on verso. Folio, 305x215 mm, contemporary Italian blind-tooled goatskin over pasteboard with design of interlacing saltire and lozenge formed by scrollwork roll on covers, spine defective; occasional browning or marginal foxing and minor stains, paper corrosion along fore edge of opening leaves, title soiled, with later 16th-century ownership inscriptions on title, scattered contemporary marginalia, some pagges on pages 425-27 scored, free endpapers lacking. Ownership inscription of J[ames] W[ilson] Rimington Wilson (1822-77); bookplate of Eugene Du Bois. (Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, February 1516)

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first edition of an anthology of writings by classical authors on theology, law, medicine, philosophy, and miscellaneous subjects; dedicated to Jean Grolier. Renouard, page 79(11); Adams R450.