Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 31

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS. In hoc volumine haec continentur. Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium lib. IIII [and other texts]. Edited by Andrea Navagero. [15] (of [16]), 245, [2] (of [3]) leaves; lacks blank last preliminary leaf, and final leaf with Aldine device (replaced in facsimile). 4to, 198x132 mm, 18th-century 1/2 calf, rebacked, spine darkened and worn; marginal soiling on title, scattered imperfectly washed marginalia, stain through around 30 leaves in middle of volume, small wormholes through H7-8 affecting some words. Harvard College Library stamps on title and bookplate on front pastedown (released). sold as is. (Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, 1514) [but with the preliminaries supplied from the 1521 edition]

Additional Details

first aldine edition of Cicero's writings on rhetoric. Renouard, pages 65(1), 92(12); Ahmanson-Murphy 120, 207.