Oct 23, 2012 - Sale 2291
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Sale 2291 - Lot 38

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CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS. Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium libri IIII [and other texts]. 179, [1]; 136 [i. e., 137], [1]; 56; 45, [3] leaves. 4 parts in 2 volumes, bound in one. 8vo, 162x100 mm, contemporary Wittenberg(?) binding of blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards with Spes/Fides/Caritas roll dated 1551 incorporating monogram C G around center panel containing 2 vertical rows of fleurs-de-lis, front cover additionally stamped B B T at top, brass catches and clasps; first title lightly soiled, contents otherwise clean. Early ownership inscriptions of Caspar Textorius and Melchior Adam Pastorius. Venice: (Sons of Aldus, January), 1550
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Fifth Aldine edition of Cicero's rhetorical writings, edited by Paulus Manutius, reprinted from the fourth Aldine of 1546. Renouard, page 148(5); New UCLA 391; Haebler, Rollen- und Plattenstempel I, 137-39 (tentatively localizing the roll to a Wittenberg workshop, not indentifying it conclusively with a specific binder).