Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection N-Z

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection N-Z

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Valerius Maximus, Dictorum et factorum memorabilium, Lyon, [Guillaume Huyon? for Baldazare de Gabiano?], 1512, vellum over pasteboards

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June 25, 08:34 PM GMT

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800 - 1,200 USD

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Valerius Maximus. Dictorum et factorum memorabilium libri novem. Lyon: [Guillaume Huyon? for Baldazare de Gabiano?], 1512


"Apparently a reprint of the counterfeit of 1508" (Shaw).


8vo (164 x 94 mm). Italic type, 32 lines plus headline. collation: AA4 a-y8 A8 B4: 192 leaves. (Foxing and toning to contents, repairs to title and a1, worming to inner margin occasionally costing text, a few leaves with ink burn from marginalia.)


binding: Vellum over pasteboards made of late seventeenth- or eighteenth-century printer's waste (171 x 103 mm), flat spine with title in ink, blue speckled edges. (Stained and wormed, endpapers torn and wormed, particularly the rear endpaper).


provenance: Unidentified owner(s), early marginalia (some cropped) and underscoring, phrases from Plato, Solon, Aristophanes, etc., on last page — Thomas Ashby, Jr (1874-1931), ex libris — Swann Galleries, New York, 1 February 1979, lot 197. acquisition: Purchased from Lathrop C. Harper Inc., New York, 1979. references: UCLA 1146; Renouard 312/40; Shaw 35; Baudrier, VII, 25; Gültlingen, I, p. 69: 52; FB 89689; USTC 155151

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