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Aldine imprint - Rhetorum Graecorum Orationes (Oratores Graeci). Venice, Aldus Manutius & Andreas Asulanus, April - 7 May 1513

Estimation : 15000 / 15000
Adjudication : Invendu
Description
3 parts in 2 vols, folio, early 19th c. English red grained morocco with blind tooled border and gilt cornerpcs with pointillé design (sl. rubbed), inner dentelles, gilt edges, marbl. endpapers, 197-[3 bl.]-162 [= 163], 197-[3 bl.] p. 98-167-[2 bl.-1] pp. (with the often lacking last blank; very occ. sl. browning; lvs of quire ff. extended at lower margin). Splendid copy of this beautiful book, rarely found in this condition. Very important editio princeps of most of the Attic orators, the works of Demosthenes being published before. It is really one of the most important and beautiful books printed on the famous Aldine Presses. Contents : Pt. 1 : Aeschines (p. 3); Lysias (p. 86); Alcidamas, Anthisthenes and Damades. Pt 2 : Andocides (p. 3), Isaeus (p. 32); Dinarchus (p. 81); Antiphon (p. 99); Lycurgus (p. 132); Gorgias (p. 151); Lesbonax (p. 155); Herodes (p. 160). Pt. 3 : Isocrates (p. 3), Alcidamas, Contra dicendi magistros (p. 98, it.); Gorgias, De laudibus Helenae (p. 102, it.); Aristides, De laudibus Athenarum (p. 104, it.); Aristides, De laudibus urbis Romae (p. 154, it.). There are 2 important dedicatory letters by Aldus Manutius : one to Francesco Fasolo, dated 6.5.1513 in Pt. 1 and one to Giovanni Battista Egnazio, dated April 1513 in Pt. 3. Aldine woodcut device with dolphin and anchor on the 3 titles and at the end of Pt. 3; titles to each part printed in Greek and Latin; the 2 dedications in Latin, texts in Greek; capital spaces with printed guide letters; 48-49 lines and headline. The 2nd leaf of the 1st bifolium of Pt. 1, being blank except for 2 lines with instructions for the binder, is lacking as in all copies except for 1. Renouard says that this leaf does not belong to the ed. : "Je fais mention d'une si mince particularité pour avertir qu'il n'y a aucune imperfection !".  Provenance : British Museum Library (duplicate sale 1840); Charles Burney; Charles Bloomfield (on his death in 1857 his heirs returned the volumes to Charles Burney). 
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