Oct 23, 2012 - Sale 2291

Sale 2291 - Lot 112

Price Realized: $ 2,880
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, CAIUS; et al. In hoc volumine continentur. C. Suetonij Tranquilli XII Caesares [and other texts]. Edited by Giovanni Battista Egnazio. [32], 320 leaves. 8vo, 160x90 mm, 18th-century Italian vellum with morocco lettering piece; title lightly soiled, with short repaired clean tear, light soiling on title, faded early underscoring and marginalia, marginal dampstaining at end. (Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, August 1516)

Additional Details

first aldine edition. Renouard, page 77(5); New UCLA 147. With the armorial bookplate of Joseph Smith (1682-1770), British consul at Venice, whose library was bought by King George III in 1765.