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Éditions du XVI
e
s.
453 – (Auteur de l'antiquité & Alde) -
CAESAR, Caius 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 [...].
(Venetiis, in aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Soceri, mense januario 1518 [- novemb. 1519].
In-8° : [16]-296 lvs (small marginal dampstains in the beginning, anchor of title-page and 1 full-p. coloured
with pencil, stained, handwritten notes, wormholes in the margins and the text at the end, 1 corner lacking and
margin of last lf. partly repaired).
19
th
century (?) binding : parchment, flat spine titled with ink, red marbled head- and tail-edges, gilt and
chiselled fore-edge (latter lower flyleaf and pastedown browned).
Est.
:
600/ 700 €
Second Aldine edition (1
st
Aldine ed. : 1513) of the works of Caesar edited by the
archaeologist and architect from Verona Giovanni Giocondo (1433-c. 1515) who designed
the Palazzo del Consiglio for Maximilian I in Verona and built the Pont Notre-Dame in
Paris (rebuilt in 1853). Illustrated with 5 wood-engravings figuring fortified cities or parts
of their fortifications (Marseille, Bourges, Alesia, Uxellodunum), the first representation of
the bridge accross the Rhine built by Caesar and with 2 maps on double pages (Gaul and
Spain). Followed with a geographical index by Raimondo Mariliani. With 2 colophons (at
the end of Caesar's works and of the index) and Aldine's anchor (title-page and the end of
each part).
Re-used binding covering previously a bigger work, according to the ink title on the spine
the commentaries of Caesar by Agostino Ortica of 1519 (?), and with the chiselling of the
fore-edge curiously starting from leaf 25 until the end.
# Renouard, p. 88; # Adams C-29; # STC Italy 135; # Dibdin I-357; # EDIT16 8155; #
Mortimer 96 (ed. 1513); # not in USTC, Machiels, Soltész.
▲ Provenance : G. Reggiani "pittore" (handwritten mention in Italian); Mark J. Scearce,
Shelbyville, co-foundator of the Wakefield-Scearce Gallery selling British antiques at
Science Hill (ex-libris and handwritten mention).
¶
Seconde édition aldine des oeuvres de César éditées par Giovanni Giocondo. Illustré de 5 pleines
pages dont la première représentation du pont sur le Rhin et de 2 cartes sur doubles pages. Plein
parchemin du 17
e
s. (taché, pet. mouill. marg.).
454 – (Auteur de l'antiquité &Alde) -
JUSTINUS.- Trogi Pompei externae Historiae
in compendium ad Justino redactae. Externorum imperatorum vitae authore
Aemylio Probo.
(Venetiis, in aedibus Aldi et Andreae Asulani Soceri, mense Jan. 1522).
In-8° : 204 lvs (a few lvs slightly browned, stains, underlinings and rare marginalia, handwritten
p
rovenance
erased on the title-page, foxing, rare small marginal holes, light dampstains at the end).
18
th
century binding : marbled calf, ribbed spine with gilt fillets and roll-stamps and with red leather label, red
edges (boards slightly rubbed, wormholes in the spine, edges and corners dulled, ms. notes on the pastedowns).
Est.
:
350/ 400 €
First Aldine edition
of the summary by Justinus of the lost universal history by Trogus
Pompeius written during the age of August, edited by Franceso Torresano. Text in italic
types, Aldine's anchor on the title-page and on the back of last leaf.
# Renouard p. 96 ("Édition fort rare, et bien plus correcte que toutes les précédentes du
quinzième siècle et du commencement du seizième [...]"); # USTC 836752; # EDIT16 51989;
# Adams J-723; # STC Italy 683; # Brunet II-753; # not in Machiels, nor in Soltész.
¶
Première édition aldine de l'abrégé de l'histoire universelle de Trogue Pompée par Justin. Plein veau
marbré du 18
e
s. (qqs ff. lég. brunis, taches, claires mouill. à la fin).