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First Aldine edition of the collected commentaries on the rhetorical works of Cicero View picture(s) 1 COMMENTARIA. In omnes de arte rhetorica M. Tullii Ciceronis libros, item in eos ad C. Herennium scriptos, doctissimorum virorum commentaria, in unum veluti corpus redacta, ac separatim a' Ciceronis contextu, quem a' diversis impressum nemo iam in sua bibliotheca non habet, ne quis inani sumptu gravaretur, edita. Accessit in omnes libros rerum ac verborum memorabilium plenissimus index. Venice, sons of Aldus Manutius, 1546. 2 parts in 1 vol. Folio. Magnificent nineteenth-century red morocco binding in Renaissance style: ribbed and gilt and blind-tooled spine with title lettered in gold, sides tooled in blind and gold with gilt border, corner pieces and partly gilt central ornament of two entwined eclipses, gilt inner dentelles and binding edges, marbled endpapers, blue painted edges. With woodcut Aldine printer's device on title and on verso of last leaf, woodcut initials. (20) pp, 624 cols.; cols. 1-492, (8) pp, cols. 493-824 (i.e. 826). With 2 columns per page. (Collation: *10, A-S8, T-V6; a-o8, p-q6, r-z8, aa-dd8). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Bindings  Latin  Rhetorics  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Second Aldine edition of the famous canon of classical texts on agriculture View picture(s) 2 LIBRI DE RE RUSTICA. M. Catonis lib. I. - M. Terentii Varronis Lib. III. - L. Junii Moderati Columellae Lib. XII. - Eiusdem de arboribus liber separatus ab alijs. - Palladii Lib. XIIII. - De duobus dierum generibus: simulque de umbris, & horis, quae apud Palladium. - Index omnium ferè rerum ... - Index graecorum dictionum. - Enarrationes priscarum vocum per ordinem literarum digestae. Venice, heirs of Aldus & Andrea Soceri, December 1533. Large 8vo. Later full calf, tooled 'a l'antique', both sides with two blind ruled frames (consisting of 6 blind and one gilt lines) and one lozenge-shaped frame in the centre with gilt title in the top and centre-piece in the middle, gilt little stars and trefoil as corner-pieces, and gilt initials 'S.V.' on front cover, red speckled edges. Woodcut Aldine device on first and second title and on verso of last leaf, some woodcut geometrical figures in text. (54), 295, (1) ff. (Collation: *4, A-E8, F10, a-z8, A-O8). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Agriculture & Husbandry  Aldus Manutius  Gastronomy  Latin  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Most valuable early bibliography of the Aldine Press View picture(s) 3 (BURGASSI, Antonio Cesare & Jacopo MORELLI). Serie dell'edizioni Aldine per ordine cronologico ed alphabetico. Seconda edizione con emendazioni e giunte. Padova, Pietro Brandolese, 1790. 12mo. Contemporary wrappers with handwritten title label pasted on spine. With woodcut vignette on title. (8), 182, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Aldus Manutius  Bibliography  Incunabula  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare adaptation of Erasmus' collection of apophthegms, anecdotes and proverbs View picture(s) 4 (ERASMUS, Desiderius & Paulus MANUTIUS (ed.)). Apophthegmatum ex optimis u(trius)que linguae scriptoribus libri IIX. Pauli Manutii studio, atque industria, doctissimor. theologor. consilio, atque ope, ab omnibus mendis vindicati, quae pium, & veritatis Catholicae studiosum lectorem poterant offendere. Gregorio XIII. Pont. Max. hanc unam editionem approbante. ut in extremo libro videre est. Venice, Ex aedibus Manutianis (Aldus Manutius Jr.), 1577. 16mo. Modern full mottled calf in antique style with gilt, ribbed spine with title lettered in gold, both covers with triple blind filets and one gilt filet along the edges with small gilt centre piece and corner pieces (crowned fish). Small circular woodcut portrait of Aldus Pius Manutius on title-page, woodcut head-pieces and initials. 706, (46) pp., incl. last blank leaf. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Biography  Classical Antiquity  Proverbs  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Better than all preceding editions View picture(s) 5 (TROGUS POMPEIUS & & Aemilius PROBUS (=Cornelius NEPOS)), ed. by Marcus Junianus JUSTINUS. Trogi Pompei Externae historiae in compendium ab Iustino redactae. Externorum imperatorum vitae Aemylio Probo. Venice, Aldus Manutius & Andrea Asulani, January 1522. 8vo. 18th-century mottled calf, gilt and decorated spine with title lettered in gold on red morocco title label, red edges. Woodcut Aldine printer's device on title and verso of last blank. (4), 5-204 ff. (Collation a-z8, A-B8, C4). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Latin  Literature  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Aldine edition of Apuleius' works, including a text attributed to Hermes Trismegistus View picture(s) 6 APULEIUS, Lucius & ALCINOUS and others, & ALCINOUS. Metamorphoseos, sive lusus Asini libri XI. Floridorum IIII. De Deo Socratis I. De Philosophia I. Asclepius Trismegisti Dialogus eodem Apuleio interprete. Eiusdem Apuleij liber de Dogmatis Platonicis. Eiusdem liber de Mundo, quem magna ex parte ex lib. Aristotelis eiusdem argumenti in latinum traduxit. ... Apologiae II. ALCINOUS, Isagogicus liber Platonicae philosophiae, Graece impressus. Nam commodius visi sumus facere, si hunc librum graecum imprimeremus, quam latinum, cum inepta tralatione cuiusdam Episcopi Ttropiensis (sic) barbarus esset. (Colophon: Venice, heirs of Aldus the Elder (Andrea Asulani & sons), May 1521). 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Contemporary richly blind ruled full calf with three blind tooled decorated rolls, red speckled edges. Woodcut printer's device on title and verso of last leaf. 266 (i.e. 264), (28) ff. [Collation: a-z8, A-K8 (Rom.), (1-3)8, (4)4 (Arab.)]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Bindings  Greek & Latin  Greek Printing  Philosophy  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Nearly contemporary commentary on Cicero's speeches from the Aldine Press View picture(s) 7 ASCONIUS PEDIANUS, Quintus. Explanatio in Ciceronis orationes in C. Verrem, in orationem pro C. Cornelio, in orationem contra competitores, in orationem pro M. Scauro, in orationem contra L. Pisonem, in orationem pro Milone. Scholia Pauli Manutii. Indices Duo. Venice, (Paulus Manutius), 1563. 8vo. Modern panelled blind stamped brown morocco in antique style with endpapers from an earlier binding, spine with 2 raised bands, both covers with blind stamped ornamental border. Aldus' woodcut printer's device on title-page. Printed in italics. (12),104 lvs. Collation: A8, 2A4, B-O8. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Classical Antiquity  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Auction catalogue including a group of Aldines View picture(s) 8 BOULOUZE. Bearzi.- Catalogue de livres rares et precieux composant la bibliothèque de feu M. l'abbé Jean-Baptiste Chevalier de Bearzi. Paris, Edwin Tross, 1855. 2 parts in one vol. Wrappers. XII, 222; 191 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Aldus Manutius  Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  Catalogues  Libraries & Collections  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Pioneering study of Roman coinage: the best book on the subject written up to that time View picture(s) 9 BUDÉ, Guillaume. Libri V de asse, & partibus 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 ob servantiam à nobis illi dicantur. Venice, Aldus & Andrea Asulani Sorceri, September 1522. 8vo. Contemporary limp vellum with title in ink on spine, parts of ties preserved. Woodcut Aldine printer's device on title and verso of last leaf. (12), 262 [i.e. 260; f. 158 numbered 158-160], (2) ff. [Collation: aa8 bb4 a-t8 u6 A-N8]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Greek & Latin  Numismatics  Typography  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautifully illustrated second Aldus edition of Caesar View picture(s) 10 CAESAR, C. Julius. Hoc volumine continentur haec. Commentariorum de bello Gallico libri VIII. De bello civili pompeiano libri IIII. De bello Alexandrino liber I. De bello Africano liber I. De bello Hispaniensi liber I. Pictura totius Galliae, & Hispaniae secundum C. Caesaris commentarios. Nomina locorum, urbiumque, & populorum Galliae, & hispaniae, ut olim dicebantur latine, & nunc dicantur, secundum orinem alphabeti. Pictura pontis in Rheno. Item Auarici, Alexiae. Uxelloduni. Massiliae. Venice, Aldus Manutius & André d'Asola ('In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Soceri'), January 1518 - November 1519. 8vo. Later vellum, gilt and gauffered front edge. With three woodcut Aldine printer's' devices, 2 double-page woodcut maps of France and Spain, and 5 full-page woodcuts. (15), 296 leaves (Collation: A8, B8-1 (last blank lacking), a-z, 2a-2o8). Full description >> Related Subjects: Aldus Manutius  France  German  History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Mid-sixteenth century Aldus edition of Cicero's rhetorical works, includuing the Rhetoricorum ad Herrennium View picture(s) 11 CICERO, Marcus Tullius. Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium libri IIII. incerto autore. Ciceronis De Inventione libri. II. Topica ad Trebatium. Oratoriae partitiones. Corrigente Paulo Manutio. Venice, Paulus Manutius, 1554. 8vo. Modern light brown morocco in antique style, gilt ribbed spine, both covers panelled with single gilt fillet border and gilt corner pieces, front cover with title lettered in gold, edges died blue. Aldus' woodcut printer's device on title. 184 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Classical Antiquity  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Editio princeps, assuring the history of Greek drama: Thomas More made his hero Raphael to give a copy to the Utopians! View picture(s) 12 EURIPIDES. [Greek text] Tragoediae septendecim [=18], ex quibus quaedam habent commentaria. & sunt hae. Hecuba Orestes Phoenissae Medea Hippolytus Alcestis Andromache Supplices Iphigenia in Aulide Iphigeniae in Tauris Rhesus Troades Bacchae Cyclops Heraclide Helena Ion. Venice, Aldus Manutius, February 1503. 2 vols. 8vo. Limp vellum: leaves from a sixteenth-century Spanish manuscript with a large decorated initial painted in blue, red and gold with white pen flourishes on the front cover of the first volume, blue painted edges. With the famous printer's device of Aldus on the last leaf of both volumes, printed throughout in Aldus' beautiful Greek characters. Vol. 1: (268), foliated by a sixteenth-century hand; vol. 2: (190) lvs., including all blanks. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Greek & Latin  Greek Printing  Literary History, Classics  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extensive notes on Cicero's Philippics by an Italian philologist, printed by Paulus Manutius View picture(s) 13 FERRARIUS, Hieronymus (Girolamo FERRARI). Ad Paulum Manutium emendationes in Philippicas Ciceronis. Venice, Paulus Manutius, (March) 1542. 8vo. Later vellum, spine raised in compartments with title lettered in ink, pastedowns of gilt paper with blue floral decorations. Woodcut printer's device on title and verso of last leaf. (126) ff. [Collation: A10 B-P8 Q4]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Greek & Latin  Philosophy  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Aldine edition of the intriguing Attic Nights recording many fragments of classical works now lost View picture(s) 14 GELLIUS, Aulus. Noctium Atticarum libri undeviginti. Venice, Aldus Manutius & André d'Asola ("In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae soceri"), September 1515. 8vo. Seventeenth (or Eighteenth)-century sprinkled calf, spine gilt in compartments with a stamp of an eagle in four compartments and a red morocco label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, marbled endpapers, g.e. With the famous Aldine printer's mark on the title and on the verso of the last leaf. Printed in Italics. (32), 289, (51) lvs. (Collation: AA-DD, a-z, A-T8, V4). Full description >> Related Subjects: Aldus Manutius  Literary History, Classics  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The elegant and famous editio princeps by Aldus Manutius of 'the Father of History', from the Arenberg library! View picture(s) 15 HERODOTUS. (Historiarum) Libri novem. Quibus musarum indita sunt nomina. (and title in Greek: Herodotu Logoi ennea, hoi per epika luntai musai) Venice, Aldus Manutius, September 1502. Folio. Late nineteenth-century full polished calf, sides blind-tooled: a floral border around a central panel with checked ruling with stamps of a fleur-de-lys and the coat of arms of the Dukes of Arenberg in the centre, ribbed spine, edges dyed green. With Aldus's printer's device on the title and on the verso of the last leaf. (140) lvs. (Collation: 2A-2R8, 2S4). Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Armorial Bindings  Greek & Latin  Greek Printing  History  Libraries & Collections  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important edition of Livy with accurate criticism on the chronology of Roman history View picture(s) 16 LIVIUS, Titus. Historiarum ab urbe condita, libri qui exstant XXXV cum universae historiae epitomis Caroli Sigonij scholia, quibus ijdem libri, atque epitomae partim emendantur, partim etiam explanantur, ab auctore multis in partibus aucta. Venice, in aedibus Manutianis (= Paulus Manutius & Aldus Manutius the younger), 1572. 3 parts in 1 vol. Folio. Modern vellum with title in ink on spine, new endpapers. Title to each part with large woodcut printer's device surrounded with an allegorical border. 590 lvs. (ff. (54), 1-399 (1 blank); 1-109 (1 blank); pp. 1-52. [Collation: a6, a-f8, A-Z8, Aa-Zz8, A2a-D2d8; A-N8, O6; a-e4, f6]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Greek & Latin  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Nice copy of the first Aldine edition View picture(s) 17 MARTIALIS, Marcus Valerius. [Epigrammata]. (Colophon: Venice, Aldus Manutius the Elder, December 1501). 8vo. 17th-century calf, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold. (192) ff., including the last blank. [Collation: A-Z8 &8]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Greek & Latin  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the Latin language: the most important Renaissance dictionary/encyclopaedia, together with the three main classical texts on the subject View picture(s) 18 PEROTTUS (PEROTTO, PEROTTI), Niccolò. In hoc volumine habentur haec. # Cornucopiae, sive linguae Latinae commentarij diligentissime recogniti: atque ex archetypo emendati. # Index copiosissimus dictionum omnium ... # Eiusdem Sypontini libellus, quo Plynij epistola ad Titum Vespasianum corrigitur. # Cornelij Vitellij in eum ipsum libellum Sypontini annotationes. # M. Terentij Varronis de lingua Latina libri tres: Quartus. Quintus. Sextus. # Eiusdem de analogia libri tres. # Sexti Pompeij Festi undeviginti librorum fragmenta. # Nonij Marcelli Compendia, in quibus tertia ferè pars addita est: non ante impressa ... Colophon on K8r: Venice, in aedibus Aldi & Andrea Soceri, May 1517. Colophon on Y7v: Venice, in aedibus Aldi Folio. Modern brown calf with gilt title on spine, new endpapers. Woodcut printer's device on title repeated on verso of last leaf. 440 lvs., ff. 1-79 (1 blank), cols. 1-492 494-495 495-602 563-564 606-967 668-669 970-1018 1021-1022 1021-1024 1013-1014 1027-1408 1397-1398 1411-1436, ff. (1 blank) [Collation: '*'-10'*'8 a-z8 A-Y8 (Q3 unsigned)]. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Greek & Latin  Italy  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Editio princeps View picture(s) 19 PINDAR. Olympia. Pythia. Nemesa. Isthmia. Callimachi hymni qui inveniuntur. Dionysius de situ arbis. Licophronis Alexandra, obscurum poema (in Greek). Venice, In aedib, Aldi, et Andreae Asulani Soceri, January 1513. Sm.8vo. Full-grained red morocco, spine ribbed with gilt title, richly gilt inner dentelles, g.e. (CHAMBOLLE-DURU). With Aldus' woodcut dolphin and anchor device on title, with the legend "AL" and "DUS" on either side. (16), 373, (1, 2 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Aldus Manutius  Classical Antiquity  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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"L'une des plus belles éditions qui soient sorties de l'imprimerie Aldine" View picture(s) 20 POLIZIANO, Angelo. Omnia opera Angeli Politiani, et alia quaedam lectu digna, quorum nomina in sequenti indice vedere licet. Venice, Aldus Manutius, 1498. Folio. 17th/18th century polished calf, spine richly gilt in compartments with red morocco title label, both sides with triple gilt fillets along the edges and large gilt oval coat-of-arms in the centre, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. The coat-of-arms is of Henri-Louis Loménie, comte de Brienne (1658-1743), son of Louis Henry Loménie de Brienne. (452) lvs.Collation: a-p4, q-r5, s-t4, A-I4, K2, L-P4, Q-R5, S4, T5, V3, X-Y5, Z4, &5, iterum2a-iterum2b4, 2a5, 2b-2h8, 2i3, 2k5. Full description >> Related Subjects: Aldus Manutius  Greek & Latin  Humanism  Italy  Literary History  Literature  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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