Oct 23, 2012 - Sale 2291

Sale 2291 - Lot 81

Price Realized: $ 3,120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
MELA, POMPONIUS; et al. Pomponius Mela. Julius Solinus. Itinerarium Antonini Aug. Vibius Sequester. P. Victor de regionibus urbis Romae. Dionysius Afer de situ orbis. 233, [3] leaves, including blank q8, colophon leaf, penultimate blank, and final leaf with Aldine device on verso. 8vo, 161x99 mm, contemporary Italian (Venetian?) blind-tooled brown goatskin over pasteboard with border of repeated arabesque tool enclosing center panel with fleuron in corners and center lozenge formed by 4 impressions of the corner tool, spine faded, with slight damage at top, ties lacking; contents clean, early owner's inscription on front free endpaper; blue edges. Stamp of Beniamino Stumpo of Ferrara. (Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, October 1518)

Additional Details

only aldine edition of a compilation of ancient Roman writings on geography and cosmography. Renouard, page 83(6); New UCLA 180. handsome copy, in an unrestored contemporary binding.