Oct 02, 2002 - Sale 1944

Sale 1944 - Lot 67

Price Realized: $ 345
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS. Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad Quinctum Fratrem, cum correctionibus Pauli Manutii.<> [4], 332, [14] (of [16]) leaves; lacks penultimate blank and final leaf with printer's device * Orationum.<> Volume 2 (of 3). [3], 295 [i. e., 296], [1] leaves, including colophon leaf (but lacking ff8, which has been replaced with duplicate gathering Ff8). Together, 2 volumes. 8vo, first volume in 18th-century mottled calf gilt, extremities rubbed, top of spine chipped, contents somewhat soiled, few insignificant wormholes through last few leaves; second volume in contemporary Italian morocco attractively gilt-tooled to panel design, rebacked, covers detached. 18th-century Valperga di Masino e di Caluso bookplate and shelf labels in first volume. Renouard, pages 174, 176. Venice: Aldine press, 1558; 1559