May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 5

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
MANUTIUS, PAULUS. In epistolas Ciceronis ad Atticum . . . commentarius. [4], 414 [i. e., 416] pages. 8vo, 18th-century Italian vellum, spine darkened, split between front free endpaper and title; light marginal dampstaining on opening leaves, some underscoring in ink on preliminaries, title lightly soiled, with later 18th-century purchase inscription. Collation note of the classical scholar Henry Drury dated 1817; bookplate of Nathan T. Porter, Jr., by Edwin Davis French dated 1900. Renouard, page 157. Venice: (Paulus Manutius), 1553