Oct 23, 2012 - Sale 2291

Sale 2291 - Lot 69

Price Realized: $ 6,240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
LIVIUS, TITUS. [Decades, with the Epitome of Florus.] [76], 365, [7]; [56], 350, [6]; [56], 296; 56, 310, [2]; 131, [5] leaves. 5 volumes. 8vo, 158x101 mm (Volumes 1-4) and 156x95 (Volume 5), 19th-century black morocco with gilt Aldine device on covers, raised bands scuffed, joints rubbed; scattered foxing and marginal dampstaining, faded marginalia in last volume. Bookplates of R. Percy Alden. (Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, December 1518; February 1519; November 1520; March 1521; Heirs of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, May 1533)

Additional Details

first aldine edition, seldom found complete. Renouard, pages 83(7), 86(5), 89(5), 90(1), and 108(4); New UCLA 172, 177, 192, 198, 260.