Feb 28, 2013 - Sale 2305

Sale 2305 - Lot 6

Price Realized: $ 6,960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
CATULLUS, CAIUS VALERIUS; TIBULLUS, ALBIUS; and PROPERTIUS, SEXTUS. [Carmina.] Edited by Aldus Manutius and Girolamo Avanzi. [152] leaves, including penultimate leaf with colophon and final leaf with authors' names on verso. 8vo, 161x95 mm, contemporary Italian red morocco gilt with ornamental frame enclosing arabesque centerpiece on covers, front joint starting at top, minor worming on rear cover near bottom of spine; conspicuous dampstaining in outer margins; gilt edges, gauffered to ropework pattern. Bookplate of Douglas Maxwell Moffat; purchased by him in 1929 from E. P. Goldschmidt (Catalogue 19, item 20). (Venice: House of Aldus, January 1502)

Additional Details

first aldine edition; first state of the title, with "Propetius." Renouard, page 39(16); Ahmanson-Murphy 52.