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PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS, CAIUS [i. e., Pliny the Younger]. Epistolaru[m] libri decem. [24], 525, [3] pages, including final leaf with Aldine device on verso. 8vo, 163x98 mm, contemporary English blind-stamped calf, with twin impressions of panel of John the Baptist (front cover) and the Annunciation (rear cover), expertly rebacked; light soiling and minor stains on title, early underscoring and marginalia toward end, contents otherwise clean; title and author lettered in ink on fore edges. (Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, November 1508)
first aldine and first complete edition, containing the first Aldine colophon to announce the partnership of Aldus and his father-in-law Andrea Torresani. Renouard, page 53(3); New UCLA 100; Oldham, Blind Panels ST 25, BIB 12. From the library of the traveller and manuscript collector Robert Curzon (1810-73), with his signature dated Ch[rist] Ch[urch, Oxford] 1829.
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