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CAESAR, CAIUS JULIUS. [Opera.] Edited by Giovanni Giocondo. 5 full-page woodcut illustrations; double-page woodcut maps of Gaul and Iberia. [16], 296 leaves, including the blanks B8 and 2k7, and colophon leaf. 8vo, 154x98 mm, contemporary limp vellum with overlapping fore edges, ties lacking; minor soiling and occasional early underscoring and marginalia toward beginning. (Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, January 1518-November 1519)
Second Aldine edition. Renouard, page 88(11); New UCLA 185. On the front free endpaper is a Parisian owner's full-page note dated 1594 concerning Giocondo and the 2 Seine bridges constructed under his supervision, the Pont Notre-Dame and Petit Pont, quoting a Latin distich in his honor inscribed on one of the arches of the Pont Notre-Dame.
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