Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 1

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
STATIUS, PUBLIUS PAPINIUS. Sylvarum libri quinque. Thebaidos libri duodecim. Achilleidos duo [with Orthographia et flexus dictionum omnium apud Statium]. [295] (of [296]) leaves, including register and colophon leaves in Statius, and leaf with anchor device at end of Orthographia; lacks blank i8. 8vo, 153x92 mm, 18th-century red morocco, flat spine attractively gilt with morocco lettering piece; scattered mostly light foxing, obliterated stamp on general title, Orthographia dampstained with partly scored inscriptions on title. Armorial bookplate of Joachim Gómez de la Cortina, Marqués de Morante (1808-68). (Venice: House of Aldus, August 1502)

Additional Details

first aldine edition. Renouard, page 35(7); Ahmanson-Murphy 61.