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457 – (Auteur de l'antiquité & Alde) -
TACITUS, Publius Cornelius.- Cornelius
Tacitus exacta cura recognitus, et emendatus [...].
(Venetiis, in aedibus haeredum Aldi Manutii romani, et Andreae Asulani Soceri), 1534.
In-8° : [12]-260 lvs (margins of title-page repaired slightly affecting a few letters on the reverse, some other
marginal restorations, stains or dampstains mostly marginal, marginal wormholes in the beginning, foxing,
numerous on some lvs, rare marginal holes, some marginalia).
19
th
century monogrammed binding : threequarter blue calf, boards of blue cloth encircled with a gilt roll-stamp,
gilt decorated flat spine with red leather label and monogram "LLB" (used on the edges, corners strongly dulled,
boards slightly rubbed, binding almost entirely loose).
Est.
:
300/ 400 €
Unique Aldine edition
of the works of Tacitus, based on the edition in-f° of 1533 by
Rhenanus (1485-1547), friend and biographer of Erasmus. With corrections of Rhenanus
and notes of André Alciat. Aldine's anchor on the title-page and on the back of last leaf.
# Renouard pp. 112-113; # Dibdin II-450; # Adams T-25; # USTC 857890; # EDIT 1627227;
# STC Italy 654; # not in Soltész, nor in Machiels.
▲ Provenance : Bruno Lizio in Messina, 1853 (handwritten mentions and gilt monogram
on the spine "LLB" for Letterio Lizio Bruno). Lizio (1837-1908) was a well-known poet and
author, considered as the most elegant writer of Sicily.
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Unique édition aldine des oeuvres de Tacite. Demi-veau bleu monogrammé à coins du 19
e
s. (marges
du titre restaurées, qqs réparations marg., taches ou mouill., rel. presque entièrement détachée...).
458 – (Auteur de l'antiquité) -
PERSIUS FLACCUS, Aulus.- Publii Auli Persii
familiaris explanatio cum Johan Britannici eruditissima interpretatione.
Argumenta satyrarum ac prefationis Persiane per Jodocum Badium [...].
Venundantur Lugduni, Petro Ungre et Anthonio Doulcet (Johannis de Platea et Jacobi
Myt, 1510 die vero xx novembris).
In-4° : lxxxiii lvs (wormholes in the text throughout and small in some margins, margins of first lvs repaired,
dampstains, rare tears with lack, underlinings and rare marginalia).
Modern binding : threequarter green calf, black paper boards, ribbed spine with blind and gilt fillets and
2 black leather labels encircled with gilt roll-stamps, brown sprinkled edges (edges partly rubbed, handwritten
p
rovenance on the upper flyleaf, label stuck on the lower pastedown).
Est.
:
200/ 250 €
Early post-incunabulum
of Persius' Satyres (34-62) with his biography and extensive
commentaries by Giovanni Britannico, edited by Josse Bade who added a preface. Contains
also two other prefaces by Filippo Beroaldo and Angiolo Poliziano. The Satyres were first
printed at Rome in c. 1470, with Britannicus' notes at Brescia in 1481 and first edited by
Badius at Lyon in 1499. Text printed in italic types with ornemental initials.
# Renouard, Bade, p. 150, n° 10; # STC French 346; # Baudrier I-130; # not in USTC,
Adams, Soltész, Machiels.
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Post-incunable des Satyres de Perse commentées par Britannico et éditées par Bade. Demi-veau vert
à coins moderne (trous de vers dans le texte passim, mouill.).