Valerius Maximus, Dictorum et factorum memorabilium, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1502, eighteenth-century ivory vellum

Valerius Maximus. Dictorum et factorum memorabilium libri nouem. Venice: Aldo Manuzio, October 1502

First Aldine edition, first issue.

8vo (158 x 92 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: π⁴ A-Z⁸ aa-cc⁸: 212 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title- page and final recto. (Washed, marginal worming repaired on first and last few leaves, several leaves neatly remargined, intermittent dampstaining, last quire soiled, foliated on the upper right corner in an early hand, additional marginalia.)

binding: Eighteenth-century vellum (160 x 100 mm), flat spine, title in ink on spine, edges stained red. (Lightly stained, a few wormholes along joints and spine, hinges cracked.)

provenance: Unidentified owner, early marginalia. acquisition: Purchased from Bonnefoi Livres Anciens, Paris, 2015. references: UCLA 65; Renouard 36/10; Edit16 36147; USTC 861752