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, Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium libri IIII, Venice, Aldus, 1546, later vellum, Landau copy

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium libri IIII incerto auctore. Ciceronis De inventione libri II. De oratore, ad Q. fratrem libri III. Brutus, sive, De claris oratoribus, liber I. Orator ad Brutum, Topica ad Trebatium, Oratoriae partitiones, initium libri De optimo genere oratorum. Corrigente Paulo Manutio Aldi filio. Venice: sons of Aldo Manuzio, September 1546


4 parts in 2 volumes, 8vo (160 x 100 mm). Italic type, 30 lines. collation: A-Y8 Z4 2A-Q8 R10 3A-G8 4A-F8: 422 leaves. A few marginal annotations. (Vol. 1: a few leaves in quires A and C trimmed along fore-edge; a few occasional minor marginal stains.)


binding: Nineteenth-century vellum over pasteboard (167 x 107 mm), salmon lettering-pieces on spines. (Lettering pieces a bit abraded.)


provenance: Baron Horace de Landau (1824-1903, monogram bookplates) — La Vecchia Parma Antiquariato (label in vol. 1). acquisition: Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, London, 2004. references: UCLA 346; Edit16 12274; Renouard 136/7

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