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Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
CURTIUS RUFUS, QUINTUS. Historiae Alexandri Magni. [154] leaves, including final blank. Roman type. Folio, 263x188 mm, early 18th-century red morocco bound for Lord Pembroke (see below); noticeable foxing on opening leaves, scattered minor stains; cloth slipcase. Bookplates of Charles Stephen Ascherson (d. 1945) and Hilton Young, first Baron Kennet (1879-1960). [Venice]: (Vindelinus de Spira), [1471]
first edition of a 1st-century A.D. account of the life and exploits of Alexander the Great. Hain-Copinger 5878; GW 7871; BMC V, 163; Goff C998; ISTC ic00998000. From the library of Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke (circa 1656-1733), with his shelf mark and characteristic pencil note to the binder on the last text leaf regarding the spine lettering; sold as lot 75 in his sale at Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 25 June 1914. De Ricci, English Collectors, pages 40-41.
