December 1518 - February 1519 LIVY. Ex XIIII T. Livii decadibus. Prima, Tertia . Eds. Franciscus Asulanus and Johannes Malatesta. Aldine 8° (160 x 100mm), 2 volumes. Collation: v.I (First Decade) . #960;* 8 * 4 (title including the first appearance of Aldine device Fletcher no. 6, preface to the readers, Paduan stone inscriptions, name index), 2*-8* 8 (subject index), . #958;* a-z aa-zz 8 && 4 (Asolano's dedication to Navagero, epitomes and text, editors' note to the reader, errata, device 3, - . #960;*1 divisional title); v.II (Third Decade) 1-6 8 (title Index decadis tertiae including the first appearance of device 7, name and subject indices), * 8 (Asolano's dedication to Giovanni Battista Ramusio, epitomes, -1 title), aa-zz AA-XX 8 YY 4 (text, errata, -YY4 device). 447 (of 448; lacking divisional title) and 410 (of 412; lacking title and final device) leaves. Italic type 1:80. 30 lines and headline. Initial-spaces and guide-letters. (Some very minor worming and staining, obliteration of title inscriptions causing holes affecting in one case text on verso.) BINDING: contemporary Venetian blind-tooled deep-brown goatskin, panelled sides with multiple fillets and roll-tooled borders (v.1 floral, v.2 arabesque), knotwork ornament in central panels, titles gilt-lettered in upper panel of front covers: T.L.P. DEC. P. [T], compartments of spines diapered, (restored in places, slight rubbing, ties removed), pastedown v.1 a biblical fragment from an early vellum ms. PROVENANCE: contemporary Italian ownership inscription (? Francisci Delegadoni) heavily scored through on titles of both volumes; Josephus Nocetus, v. 2 inscription dated 7th July 1662 at midnight, in Genoa near the sea on Merchants' Bridge, recording his gift to; Johannes Stephanus Castagnola (17th-cent. inscr. v. 2 scored through); Paolo Felice Molinelli (v. 2 18th-cent. inscr.) FIRST ALDINE EDITION. Volume 3 (Fourth Decade) appeared in November 1520, vol. 4 in 1521 ( Epitomae and Lucius Florus, see lot 75); Paulus Manutius added a fifth volume in 1533 (first pentad of the Fifth Decade, discovered at Lorsch by Simon Grynaeus in 1527), finally completing the edition of what remains of Livy's monumental Roman history, Ab urbe condita . These copies of vols. 1 and 2 form an original set and were bound to match soon after publication, albeit decorated to slightly varying designs and with different tools. Franciscus Asulanus had been running the Press for his father, Andrea Torresano, ever since Aldus's death. In his preface to the first volume of Livy, as his brother-in-law had had to do before him, Asolano warns his readers against Giuntine piracies. In the dedication he writes of the commission given by the Venetian Senate to Andrea Navagero to put Cardinal Bessarion's library in order. Isaac 12886, 12891; Adams L-1322; Murphy 151, 155; R 83:7, 86:5
December 1518 - February 1519 LIVY. Ex XIIII T. Livii decadibus. Prima, Tertia . Eds. Franciscus Asulanus and Johannes Malatesta. Aldine 8° (160 x 100mm), 2 volumes. Collation: v.I (First Decade) . #960;* 8 * 4 (title including the first appearance of Aldine device Fletcher no. 6, preface to the readers, Paduan stone inscriptions, name index), 2*-8* 8 (subject index), . #958;* a-z aa-zz 8 && 4 (Asolano's dedication to Navagero, epitomes and text, editors' note to the reader, errata, device 3, - . #960;*1 divisional title); v.II (Third Decade) 1-6 8 (title Index decadis tertiae including the first appearance of device 7, name and subject indices), * 8 (Asolano's dedication to Giovanni Battista Ramusio, epitomes, -1 title), aa-zz AA-XX 8 YY 4 (text, errata, -YY4 device). 447 (of 448; lacking divisional title) and 410 (of 412; lacking title and final device) leaves. Italic type 1:80. 30 lines and headline. Initial-spaces and guide-letters. (Some very minor worming and staining, obliteration of title inscriptions causing holes affecting in one case text on verso.) BINDING: contemporary Venetian blind-tooled deep-brown goatskin, panelled sides with multiple fillets and roll-tooled borders (v.1 floral, v.2 arabesque), knotwork ornament in central panels, titles gilt-lettered in upper panel of front covers: T.L.P. DEC. P. [T], compartments of spines diapered, (restored in places, slight rubbing, ties removed), pastedown v.1 a biblical fragment from an early vellum ms. PROVENANCE: contemporary Italian ownership inscription (? Francisci Delegadoni) heavily scored through on titles of both volumes; Josephus Nocetus, v. 2 inscription dated 7th July 1662 at midnight, in Genoa near the sea on Merchants' Bridge, recording his gift to; Johannes Stephanus Castagnola (17th-cent. inscr. v. 2 scored through); Paolo Felice Molinelli (v. 2 18th-cent. inscr.) FIRST ALDINE EDITION. Volume 3 (Fourth Decade) appeared in November 1520, vol. 4 in 1521 ( Epitomae and Lucius Florus, see lot 75); Paulus Manutius added a fifth volume in 1533 (first pentad of the Fifth Decade, discovered at Lorsch by Simon Grynaeus in 1527), finally completing the edition of what remains of Livy's monumental Roman history, Ab urbe condita . These copies of vols. 1 and 2 form an original set and were bound to match soon after publication, albeit decorated to slightly varying designs and with different tools. Franciscus Asulanus had been running the Press for his father, Andrea Torresano, ever since Aldus's death. In his preface to the first volume of Livy, as his brother-in-law had had to do before him, Asolano warns his readers against Giuntine piracies. In the dedication he writes of the commission given by the Venetian Senate to Andrea Navagero to put Cardinal Bessarion's library in order. Isaac 12886, 12891; Adams L-1322; Murphy 151, 155; R 83:7, 86:5
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