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(Auteur de l'Antiquité) - CICERO, Marcus Tullius.- In hoc volumine haec continentur. Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium […]. M.T. Ciceronis de inventione […]. Eiusdem de Oratore ad Quintum fratrem […]. Eiusdem de Claris oratoribus, [qui] dicitur Brutus […]. Eiusdem Orator ad Brutum […]. Eiusdem Topica ad Trebatium […]. Eiusdem Oratoriae partiones […]. Eiusdem de Optimo genere oratorum praefatio quaedam […]. ( Venetiis, in aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Soceri, mense octobri 1521). In-8° : [9]-245-[6] lvs (6 preliminary lvs deplaced and bound at the end of the vol., last blank lf. of the preliminary and lf. with Aldine's anchor missing, wormhole in the 4 first lvs, some lvs slightly yellowed in the middle of the vol., light dampstain in two upper corners, some ink stains, otherwise nice condition). Modern binding : half calf, marbled paper boards, gilt decorated ribbed spine, brown sprinkled edges (some small scratches or parts rubbed, corners strongly dulled). Second Aldine edition of the rhetorical works of Cicero (1st ed. : 1514). Copy in good condition with some ink initials and with the Aldine's anchor on title-page coloured. # Renouard p. 93; # Adams C-1677; # Soltész C-764; STC Italy p. 175; # Machiels C-345; # Dibdin I-436 (1st Aldine ed.); # EDIT 16 CNCE 12215; # USTC 822125. Provenance : Pierre Rouchet 1628-1629, rhetor at the Rhetorical Academy of Besançon, who wrote several quotes in Latin an French in the copy (handwritten mention). ¶ Seconde édition aldine des oeuvres de rhétorique de Ciceron. Demi-veau moderne (6 ff. lim. reliés à la fin, 2 ff. dont un avec l'ancre aldine manquants). Drouotlive.com Read more