Oct 23, 2012 - Sale 2291

Sale 2291 - Lot 65

Price Realized: $ 2,880
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
JUVENALIS, DECIMUS JUNIUS; and PERSIUS FLACCUS, AULUS. [Satyrae.] [78] leaves. 8vo, 162x97 mm, early 19th-century russia, decorated paper endleaves; minor marginal stains on title, slight adhesion on b3v and b4r affecting a few letters. (Venice: House of Aldus, August 1501)

Additional Details

first aldine edition. Renouard, page 29(6); New UCLA 44. From the libraries of the traveller and manuscript collector Robert Curzon (1810-73), with his signature dated Ch[rist] Ch[urch, Oxford] 1829; Loxwood House, with shelf label; and W. R. Jeudwine (1920-84), with his bookplate (sale, Bloomsbury, 18 September 1984, lot 80).