Aldine Press, 6 volumes of Classical texts, 1516-1575, various bindings

Aldine Press

A collection of 6 works of Classical literature, comprising:

CICERO, Marcus Tullius. De philosophia, pars prima (-volumen secundam) [edited by Paolo Manuzio]. Venice: sons of Aldus, 1546, 2 volumes in one, 8vo, woodcut Aldine device on title-pages and final versos, with blank leaf g4, early nineteenth-century half calf over marbled boards, [Edit16 12270; Renouard 137/11-12], lacking the Tusculanae quaestiones (second part of the first volume), binding slightly rubbed

CICERO. Epistolae ad Atticum... cum suis commentariis separatim impressis, auctore Paulo Manutio. Venice: sons of Aldus, 1548, 8vo, woodcut Aldine device on title-page, without final blank, nineteenth-century half calf rebacked in cloth, signature and bookplate of Henry Richards Luard (1825-1891), bookplate of John Wyndham Bruce (1802-1869), [Edit16 12279; Renouard 143/4], slight damage to text on Y6v, quire DD lightly browned

LIVIUS, Titus. Historiarum in urbe condita, libri, qui extant, XXXV. Cum universae historiae epitomis, a Carolo Sigonio emendati. Venice: Paolo Manuzio, 1555, part one only (of 2, without the scholia), folio, woodcut Aldine device on title-page, woodcut initials, old calf, inscription of William Reynolds of Streatham, [Edit16 27997; Renouard 166/15, both parts], slight damp-staining, crudely rebacked and hard to open

OVIDIUS NASO, Publius. Metamorphoseon libri XV. (Venice): Aldus (in the house of Aldus and Andrea Torresani, February 1516), 8vo, woodcut Aldine device on title-page and section title, without blank leaf at end of preliminaries, nineteenth-century red pebbled calf, gilt edges, washed signature "Josephi Ghezzii" on title-page (Giuseppe Ghezzi?), inscribed by V. di Ravelli, London, 1913, [Edit16 47168, all 3 volumes; Renouard 78/9], joints rubbed

TERENTIUS AFER, Publius. A M. Antonio Mureto emendatus. Venice: Aldus, 1575, 8vo, woodcut device on title-page, woodcut armorial on verso of title-page, carta rustica, UNCUT, initials W.T. at head of flyleaf, Richard Heber's Bibliotheca Heberiana stamp [sale, Sotheby's, 8 May 1834, lot 6658, £1-15s to Thorpe, "very rare" but no mention of lacking scholia], early annotations, [Edit16 27529; Renouard 219/13], lacking the scholia, A2-3 remargined

VERGILIUS MARO, Publius. [Opera] Pauli Manutii adnotationibus, in libri margine ob studiosorum commodum adscriptis, illustratus. Venice: Paolo Manuzio, 1558, 8vo, woodcut device on title-page and final verso (otherwise blank), F8 misbound after F1, nineteenth-century red leather by C. Smith with the Aldine device stamped in gilt, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges, armorial bookplate of William Henry Smith [sale, Sotheby's, 16 July 1945, lot 87, £5-5s to Orion], [Edit16 26403; Renouard 174/12 ("très rare et bien exécutée")], joints rubbed