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ALDINE PRESS CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS) Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M.Brutum, ad Quintu fratrem, 8vo, 1558-9; and 2 others, Aldine (3) image 1
ALDINE PRESS CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS) Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M.Brutum, ad Quintu fratrem, 8vo, 1558-9; and 2 others, Aldine (3) image 2
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ALDINE PRESS
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS) Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M.Brutum, ad Quintu fratrem, 8vo, 1558-9; and 2 others, Aldine (3)

29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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ALDINE PRESS

CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS) Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M.Brutum, ad Quintu fratrem, colophon dated 1659, Aldine device on title and final leaf, light arc of damp-staining to upper fore-corner of opening 18 leaves, extensive ink annotations to title, opening leaves and final endpapers in nineteenth century hand, some marginal annotations in an earlier hand, later vellum, soiled, upper hinge cracked [Ahmanson-Murphy 572; Renouard 174:9], Venice, [Paulus Manutius], 1558-1559--EURIPIDES. Hecuba, & Iphigenia in Aulide Euripidis tragdiæ, translated into Latin by Erasmus, capital spaces with guide-letters, nineteenth century red morocco, worn [Ahmanson-Murphy 1137; Renouard 309:24], [Lyon, c.1509], 8vo; and another, Aldine (3)

Footnotes

The Euripides is a counterfeit Aldine printed in Lyon.

Provenance: First, Wm. Dixon, nineteenth century ownership inscription on title; unidentified writer of most of the ink annotations; A.M. Woodward (1883-1973, archaeologist and classical lecturer), pencil inscription dated Nov. 1949; Second, Samuel Butler (1774-1839), Bishop of Lichfield, his sale 'Bibliotheca Butleriana' ("the most extensive series ever submitted to Public Sale, of Books printed by Aldus Pius Manutius", catalogue introduction), Christie's, 1-9 June 1840, lot 746, tipped-in printed catalogue entry on front free endpaper; indecipherable ownership inscription dated 1875; Ernest Swain, bookplate.

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