Oct 23, 2012 - Sale 2291
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Sale 2291 - Lot 37

Price Realized: $ 33,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS. Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad Quintu[m] fratrem . . . Pauli Manutii in easdem epistolas scholia. [2], 331, [11]; [24] leaves. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo, 191x112 mm, 19th-century red morocco by Trautz-Bauzonnet, few scratches on front cover; contents unobtrusively washed; gilt edges, faintly marbled. Venice: (Sons of Aldus, August), 1540
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large-paper copy, printed on heavy stock with the book block measuring 50 mm in thickness. Renouard, page 120(7); New UCLA 287. From the libraries of Alfred and Henry Huth, with their booklabel (sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 7 June 1912, lot 1616); and the classical scholar William Smith Watt (1913-2002; sale, Bloomsbury, 25 September 1997, lot 261).