Apr 09, 2015 - Sale 2379

Sale 2379 - Lot 139

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
PEROTTUS, NICOLAUS [i. e., PEROTTI, NICCOLÒ]; et al. In hoc volumine habentur haec: Cornucopiae, sive linguae Latinae com[m]entarii [and other texts]. 79, [1] leaves, 1436 columns; lacks last leaf, blank except for Aldine device on verso. Folio, 302x208 mm, 19th-century Spanish tree calf with red morocco lettering piece; occasional marginal dampstaining, worsening toward end, scattered cropped marginalia. Armorial bookplate of Joachim Gómez de la Cortina, Marqués de Morante (1808-68). (Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, May 1517)

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Third 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 81(10); Ahmanson-Murphy 151.