Oct 23, 2012 - Sale 2291

Sale 2291 - Lot 87

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
PEROTTUS, NICOLAUS [i. e., PEROTTI, NICCOLÒ]; et al. In hoc volumine habentur haec: Cornucopiae, sive linguae Latinae com[m]entarii [and other texts]. [80] leaves, 1436 columns, [1] leaf with Aldine device on verso. Folio, 309x217 mm, 18th-century 1/4 calf, spine scuffed, moderate wear to cover edges; title and last page soiled, contents otherwise clean, repaired clean tear in X1. 18th-century bookplate of Wakefield School, their ownership inscription (gift of Edmund Rolfe) dated 1755 on title; modern bookplates of Brian Douglas Stilwell and Robert Wayne Stilwell. (Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, November 1513)

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Second Aldine edition of an exhaustive lexicographical commentary on the first book of Martial's epigrams, consulted long after as a Latin dictionary. The original edition was printed in 1489, the first Aldine in 1499. Renouard, page 28(5); New UCLA 43.