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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...

Estimation : 600 / 700
Adjudication : 500 €
Description
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). 19th 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).
Second Aldine edition (1st 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 17e s. (taché, pet. mouill. marg.).
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