ALDINE IMPRINT] TACITUS, CORNELIUS. Cornelivs Tacitvs exacta cvra recognitvs, et emendatvs. Copiosvs index rervm, locorvm, et personarvm, de qvibvs in his libris agitvr. Varia lectio, in calce operis impressa [Venice]: in aedibvs haeredvm Aldi Manvtii Romani, et Andreae Asvlani Soceri, 1534. The first and only Aldine edition of Tacitus. 19th century brown morocco, all edges gilt. 8 x 5 1/4 inches (20.5 x 14 cm); [12], 260 numbered leaves, collating *^(8), **^(4), a-z, A-K^(8). Boards detached, chip to head of spine, but internally a clean well margined copy; from the Dogmersfield Library. Exquisitely printed in a magnificent Aldine italic throughout. Graesse VI, pt. 2, p. 8; A. A. Renouard Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde 2. ed., 1825, v. 1, p. 269.
ALDINE IMPRINT] TACITUS, CORNELIUS. Cornelivs Tacitvs exacta cvra recognitvs, et emendatvs. Copiosvs index rervm, locorvm, et personarvm, de qvibvs in his libris agitvr. Varia lectio, in calce operis impressa [Venice]: in aedibvs haeredvm Aldi Manvtii Romani, et Andreae Asvlani Soceri, 1534. The first and only Aldine edition of Tacitus. 19th century brown morocco, all edges gilt. 8 x 5 1/4 inches (20.5 x 14 cm); [12], 260 numbered leaves, collating *^(8), **^(4), a-z, A-K^(8). Boards detached, chip to head of spine, but internally a clean well margined copy; from the Dogmersfield Library. Exquisitely printed in a magnificent Aldine italic throughout. Graesse VI, pt. 2, p. 8; A. A. Renouard Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde 2. ed., 1825, v. 1, p. 269.
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