Dio Chrysostomus, Logoi 80, Venice, Torresano, 1551, nineteenth-century vellum, armorial stamp of Henri Eugène Philippe Louis d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale

Dio Chrysostomus. [Greek]. Orationes LXXX. Apposita est in extremo libro uarietas lectionum, cum orationum indice. Venice: Federico Torresano, [1551?]

First edition, a partially uncut copy, preserving deckle on a number of lower and fore-edges.

8vo (166 x 97 mm). Roman and Greek type, 27 lines plus headline. collation: A-Z⁸ AA-ZZ⁸ AAA-LLL⁸: 456 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device to title-page, decorated and historiated initials. (Occasional light foxing, worming to lower margin, with a number of leaves repaired, including the title, affecting the text in one instance, EEE6.)

binding: Nineteenth-century vellum over pasteboards (180 x 115 mm), yapp edges, covers with gilt leafy border, spine with red and green morocco lettering pieces and decorated with gilt diaper pattern, marbled endleaves, title in ink on tail-edge. (Vellum a bit darkened, minor wear to covers.)

provenance: Henri Eugène Philippe Louis d'Orléans, duc d' Aumale (1822-1897), blue armorial stamp on title, overstamped "Double" (Aumale disposed of this copy after he acquired another with the annotations of Henri Estienne-Paul Petau in the Libri sale, London, 1-15 August 1859, lot 837) — John Alfred Spranger (1889-1968), bookplate to pastedown and stamp on title — Sotheby's London, 1-2 December 1975, lot 21 — Giorgio Angiolo Eduardo Uzielli (1915-1984), purchased in previous

sale, bookplate to front free-endpaper — Sotheby's New York, 24 September 1986, lot 100. acquisition: Purchased at Sotheby's via E.K. Schreiber. references: UCLA 1039; Renouard 151/9; Edit16 17215; USTC 826916