Oct 23, 2012 - Sale 2291

Sale 2291 - Lot 36

Price Realized: $ 5,520
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS. Opera. 288; [16], 288; 340 [i. e., 640], [6]; 416; 450, [2]; 158, [100] pages. 5 volumes bound in 2. Folio, 379x250 mm, 17th-century citron morocco gilt-tooled to panel design, spines richly gilt with morocco lettering pieces, slight wear to spine ends, joints starting; light soiling on titles; red edges. wide-margined set. Paris: Robertus Stephanus, 1539-39-38-38-38

Additional Details

first estienne edition of the collected writings of Cicero, edited with commentary by Pietro Vettori. Renouard I, 48(8); not in Schreiber. From the libraries of Charles Spencer (1674-1722), third Earl of Sunderland, with his shelfmark and later Althorp bookplate (sale, Puttick & Simpson, 17 April 1882, lot 2856); and the Anglo-Jewish lawyer and historian Henry Straus Quixano Henriques (1866-1925), with his large calligraphic ownership inscription on the front flyleaf in Volume 1.