Oct 23, 2012 - Sale 2291

Sale 2291 - Lot 102

Price Realized: $ 13,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
QUINTILIANUS, MARCUS FABIUS. [De institutione oratoria.] Edited by Andrea Navagero and Giovanni Battista Ramusio. [4], 230 leaves. 8vo, 213x132 mm, contemporary Venetian brown morocco over wooden boards, gilt-tooled to panel design with border formed by repeated arabesque tool around center fleuron, brass catches and clasps (one of the latter defective); light marginal soiling and stains on title and last page, faded early inscription on title, contents otherwise clean, front free endpaper loose; gilt edges, gauffered to floral pattern. (Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, August 1514)

Additional Details

first aldine edition. wide-margined copy, in a handsome and well-preserved contemporary binding. Renouard, page 68(5); New UCLA 124.