Cicero, Marcus Tullius. In hoc volumine haec continentur. M. T. Cic. Officiorum lib. III. Cato maior, sive De senectute. Laelius, sive De amicitia. Somnium Scipionis ex VI De rep. excerptum. Παραδοξα Θεοδορου περι γηρος ερμηνεια. Ονειρος Σκιπιωνος. (Venice: in the house of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, February 1519)
8vo (166 x 100 mm). Italic and Greek text, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A8 a-v8: 168 leaves (A8 and u7 blank). Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso (otherwise blank). (Title-page soiled and repaired, other occasional light staining, without blank leaves A8 and u7, a few small wormholes at end.)
binding: Contemporary Venetian blind-tooled black morocco (170 x 107 mm) by the Mendoza Binder (Andrea di Lorenzo?), border composed of a knotwork tool with a small arabesque stamp arranged in a group of four as a centerpiece, rounded leafy stamps at inner corners, spine with (later?) blind hatching, plain edges, small holes from four pairs of ties. (Ends of spine and corners repaired.)
provenance: George Dunn, of Woolley Hall (1865-1912, printed booklabel, sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 2-6 February 1914, lot 953, £2-6s, to Maggs) — Sir Robert Leighton (1884-1959, sale, Sothebys & Co., 17-18 October 1960, lot 726) — Sir Peter Henry Berry Otway Smithers (1913-2006, sale, Sotheby & Co., 5-6 February 1973, lot 149, £75, to Quaritch) — William Salloch, New York (a rubbing of the binding with Salloch's stamp loosely inserted) — Jean Fürstenberg (booklabel). acquisition: Purchased from Martin Breslauer, New York, 1983. references: UCLA 176; Cataldi Palau 46; Edit16 12210; Renouard 86/4; A. Hobson, Renaissance Book Collecting (1999), Appendix 5: The Mendoza Binder, no. 108
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. In hoc volumine haec continentur. M. T. Cic. Officiorum lib. III. Cato maior, sive De senectute. Laelius, sive De amicitia. Somnium Scipionis ex VI De rep. excerptum. Παραδοξα Θεοδορου περι γηρος ερμηνεια. Ονειρος Σκιπιωνος. (Venice: in the house of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, February 1519)
8vo (166 x 100 mm). Italic and Greek text, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A8 a-v8: 168 leaves (A8 and u7 blank). Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso (otherwise blank). (Title-page soiled and repaired, other occasional light staining, without blank leaves A8 and u7, a few small wormholes at end.)
binding: Contemporary Venetian blind-tooled black morocco (170 x 107 mm) by the Mendoza Binder (Andrea di Lorenzo?), border composed of a knotwork tool with a small arabesque stamp arranged in a group of four as a centerpiece, rounded leafy stamps at inner corners, spine with (later?) blind hatching, plain edges, small holes from four pairs of ties. (Ends of spine and corners repaired.)
provenance: George Dunn, of Woolley Hall (1865-1912, printed booklabel, sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 2-6 February 1914, lot 953, £2-6s, to Maggs) — Sir Robert Leighton (1884-1959, sale, Sothebys & Co., 17-18 October 1960, lot 726) — Sir Peter Henry Berry Otway Smithers (1913-2006, sale, Sotheby & Co., 5-6 February 1973, lot 149, £75, to Quaritch) — William Salloch, New York (a rubbing of the binding with Salloch's stamp loosely inserted) — Jean Fürstenberg (booklabel). acquisition: Purchased from Martin Breslauer, New York, 1983. references: UCLA 176; Cataldi Palau 46; Edit16 12210; Renouard 86/4; A. Hobson, Renaissance Book Collecting (1999), Appendix 5: The Mendoza Binder, no. 108
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