Cicero, Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium libri IIII, Venice, Aldus, 1550, contemporary French limp vellum

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium libri IIII incerto auctore. Ciceronis De inventione libri II. De oratore, ad Q. fratrem libri III. Brutus, sive De claris oratoribus, liber I. Orator ad Brutum, Topica ad Trebatium, Oratoriae partitiones, Initium libri de optimo genere oratorum. Corrigente Paulo Manutio (De oratore, Ciceronis ad Q. fratrum libri III; De claris oratoribus, Ciceronis liber, qui inscribitur Brutus; Orator Ciceronis ad M. Brutum). Venice: sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1550

2 volumes in one, 8vo (162 x 98 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-Y⁸ Z⁴: 180 leaves. A-Q⁸ R¹⁰ [2]A-G⁸ [3]A-F⁸: 242 leaves ([3]F7 blank). Woodcut printer's device on title-pages and final versos. (Title-page repaired in gutter, occasional slight damp-staining.)

binding: Contemporary French vellum gilt (169 x 107 mm), flat spine gilt, gilt edges, stubs from two pairs of gilt ties. (Binding slightly soiled, new pastedowns.)

provenance: John Rutherfurd (1748-1834), sale, Sotheby's (Hodgson's Rooms), 22-23 April 1971, part of lot 334. acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. references: UCLA 391; Edit16 12301; Renouard 148/5