Budé, Guillaume. Guillielmi Budaei Parisiensis secretarii regii Libri V de asse, et partib. eius post duas Parisienses impressiones ab eodem ipso Budaeo castigati, idque authore Io. Grolierio Lugdunensi Christianissimi Gallorum Regis secretario, et Gallicarum copiarum quaestore, cui etiam ob nostram in eum observantiam a nobis illi dicantur. (Venice: in the house of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, September 1522)
A tall, crisp and clean copy of the first Aldine edition of Budé's treatise on Roman coinage, with a preface by Gian Francesco Torresano addressed to Jean Grolier, who had sent Budé's manuscript to him with a request to have it printed. The presentation of the text has been altered from the first edition of 1514, as Torresano moved the printed marginalia to the end of the volume so that readers would have the space to annotate their own copy.
4to (210 x 135 mm). Italic type, 39 lines plus headline. collation: aa8 bb4 a-t8 v6 A-N8: 274 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso.
binding: Contemporary calf over wooden boards with blind-tooled border of pelicans and peacocks (207 x 140 mm), three central knotwork and arabesque gilt stamps, blind fillets in spine compartments, gilt and gauffered edges, two clasps. (Binding rubbed at edges, spine creased and somewhat rubbed.)
acquisition: Purchased from Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris, 1979. references: UCLA 212; Cataldi Palau 80; Edit16 7797; Renouard 94/3
Budé, Guillaume. Guillielmi Budaei Parisiensis secretarii regii Libri V de asse, et partib. eius post duas Parisienses impressiones ab eodem ipso Budaeo castigati, idque authore Io. Grolierio Lugdunensi Christianissimi Gallorum Regis secretario, et Gallicarum copiarum quaestore, cui etiam ob nostram in eum observantiam a nobis illi dicantur. (Venice: in the house of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, September 1522)
A tall, crisp and clean copy of the first Aldine edition of Budé's treatise on Roman coinage, with a preface by Gian Francesco Torresano addressed to Jean Grolier, who had sent Budé's manuscript to him with a request to have it printed. The presentation of the text has been altered from the first edition of 1514, as Torresano moved the printed marginalia to the end of the volume so that readers would have the space to annotate their own copy.
4to (210 x 135 mm). Italic type, 39 lines plus headline. collation: aa8 bb4 a-t8 v6 A-N8: 274 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso.
binding: Contemporary calf over wooden boards with blind-tooled border of pelicans and peacocks (207 x 140 mm), three central knotwork and arabesque gilt stamps, blind fillets in spine compartments, gilt and gauffered edges, two clasps. (Binding rubbed at edges, spine creased and somewhat rubbed.)
acquisition: Purchased from Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris, 1979. references: UCLA 212; Cataldi Palau 80; Edit16 7797; Renouard 94/3
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