Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection A–C

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection A–C

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Cicero, Epistolae familiares, Venice, Aldus, 1546, eighteenth-century French green morocco gilt

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October 12, 08:25 PM GMT

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1,500 - 2,000 USD

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Epistolae familiares. Pauli Manutii scholia, quibus harum epistolarum locos complures, ab aliis propter obscuritatem aut omissos, aut minus recte explanatos, partim interpretantur, partim corrigit (Pauli Manutii scholia). (Venice: sons of Aldus, August 1546)


An uncommon edition, with no recent auction records. The register mistakenly includes a quire MM.


2 parts in one volume, 8vo (160 x 93 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-Z AA-LL AAA-EEE8: 272 & 40 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-pages and final versos. Ruled in red.


binding: French eighteenth-century green morocco (164 x 103 mm) gilt spine gilt in compartments with red morocco lettering-piece, marbled endleaves, gilt edges. (Small repairs to joints, corners slightly rubbed.


provenance: "Jacquin", faded name at foot of BB1 and possibly washed from foot of title-page — Henry Nazeby Harrington, bookplate. acquisition: Purchased from Sokol Books, London, 2022. references: UCLA 344 (no copy listed); Edit16 12271 (listing 7 copies); Renouard 137/10

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