Oct 23, 2012 - Sale 2291
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Sale 2291 - Lot 23

Price Realized: $ 6,240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
CAESAR, CAIUS JULIUS. [Opera.] 6 full-page woodcut illustrations; double-page woodcut map of Western Europe, tinted in 6 hand-stencilled colors as issued. [20], 296 leaves, including blank 2k7 and following colophon leaf. 8vo, 158x98 mm, 18th-century vellum boards; washed and blurred underscoring and marginalia, contemporary hand-written captions on C1 as usual, correcting the transposition of the woodcut illustrations on recto and verso. (Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, April 1513)
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first aldine edition, edited by the Franciscan scholar and architect Giovanni Giocondo (circa 1433-1515). 'Aldus was extremely sparing in his use of color as a rule, only rarely adding red as a second color to his typography; this is the only instance in which he employed a polychrome method'--Fletcher, In Praise of Aldus Manutius, page 53. Renouard, page 60(1); New UCLA 117; Harvard/Mortimer-Italian 96.