NEPOS CORNELIUS; et al Cornelius Nepos De vita Catonis senio

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NEPOS, CORNELIUS; et al. Cornelius Nepos. De vita Catonis senioris. Sextus Aurelius de vitis Caesarum. Benevenutus Imolensis de eadem re. [68] leaves. 8vo, 149x94 mm, modern tan calf with red morocco lettering piece; scattered light foxing, single tiny wormhole in title. (Fano: Girolamo [i. e., Gershom ben Moses] Soncino, March 1504)

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first soncino edition of the life of the Roman statesman Cato the Elder by Nepos, and brief works on Roman emperors by Sextus Aurelius Victor and Benevenuto Rambaldi da Imola. Gershom ben Moses was the most famous member of the family of Jewish printers who took their surname from the town of Soncino. He began printing there in 1488 and was active in various locales for over 4 decades, including Fano (where he was the first printer) in the years 1501-06 and 1515-16. His output consisted of Hebrew works exclusively up to 1500, and mostly non-Hebrew texts thereafter. Manzoni, Annali Tipografici dei Soncino II/2, 59 ('rarissima stampa,' incorrectly describing this edition of Benevenuto as the first); Potthast, page 145.