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

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

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Adda, Ad omnes iuris civilis interpretes oratio, Venice, Aldus, 1546, later red morocco gilt

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Adda, Ferdinando d'. Ferdinandi Abduensis Mediolanensis patritii equitis illustrissimi Senatus veneti, et celeberrimi ac florentissimi gymnasii patavini rectoris ad omnes iuris civilis interpretes, ac eius disciplinae studiosos contra iurisprudentiae vituperatores oratio… Venice: sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1546


8vo (147 x 90 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-F8: 48 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso. (Light staining.)


binding: Nineteenth-century red morocco (151 x 96 mm), signed by Binda of Milan, covers ruled in blind in period style and stamped in gilt with the Aldine device, crowned letter A (for Adda?) in corners, spine lettered and tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers, inner gilt dentelles, edges gilt. (Extremities lightly rubbed.) Housed in a cloth slipcase.


provenance: Plausibly bound for a member of the Adda family (Girolamo, marchese d'Adda Salvatera, 1815-1881 was a book collector). acquisition: Purchased from Sokol Books Ltd, London, 2016. references: UCLA 356; Edit16 15822; Renouard 137/14

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