Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 33

Price Realized: $ 520
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
CURTIUS RUFUS, QUINTUS. [De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni.] [8], 170, [1] (of [2]) leaves, including blank *8 and penultimate leaf with colophon; lacks the final leaf with Aldine device on verso. 8vo, 150x92 mm, 18th-century calf gilt, worn; title soiled, scattered stains and pencil underscoring, colophon leaf torn in blank portions and mounted. Bookplate of Eugene R. L. Gaughran. (Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, July 1520)

Additional Details

only aldine edition; scarce issue with author's name correctly printed on title. Renouard, page 88(1).