Cicero, Orationum pars I, Venice, Aldus, 1546, green morocco by Thouvenin, Renouard copy

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. M. Tullii Ciceronis Orationum pars I. Corrigente Paulo Manutio, Aldi filio. Venice: sons of Aldo Manuzio, June 1546

Renouard’s copy, tall and untrimmed.

Volume 1 only (of 3), 8vo (172 x 106 mm), uncut. Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-Z⁸ AA-PP⁸ QQ⁴: 308 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso.

binding: French green morocco gilt (180 x 115 mm) by by Joseph Thouvenin, l'aîné (1790-1834), spine gilt in compartments, deckle edges. (Very light wear at extremities.)

provenance: Antoine-Augustin Renouard (1765-1853, his library catalogue, 1819, II, p.80) — Payne & Foss, sale of their stock, Leigh Sotheby & Co., 18 March-18 April 1850, lot 1051, £1-2s, to George Bumstead — Charles J. Crawford (1809-1871, bookplate). acquisition: Purchased from Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris, 1989. references: UCLA 342; Edit16 12272; Renouard 136/9 (all for all 3 volumes)