Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Secundo volumine haec continentur. M. T. C. de natura deorum libri III. De divinatione libri II. De fato liber I. Scipionis somnium, quod è sex de rep. libris superest. De legibus libri III. De Universitate liber I. Q. Ciceronis de petitione consulatus ad Marcum fratrem liber I. (Venice: in the house of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, August 1523)
The second volume of a set of Cicero's philosophical works.
Volume 2 only (of 2), 8vo (168 x 100 mm). Italic type, 31 lines plus headline. collation: a-z8 A-D8: 216 leaves (B2 blank except for signature). Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso (otherwise blank), a few deckle edges, some early annotations. (Occasional light staining.)
binding: Contemporary Bolognese dark brown morocco (170 x 100 mm), an early work of the Pflug and Ebeleben Binder (ca. 1535-1547), cartouche on covers formed of gilt and blind fillets, lettered M.T.C. DE NATU DEO on upper cover, lower cover with a fortuna stamp and the initials M.P.B., lettering within an arabesque frame, title lettered along foot of textblock, (later?) blue edges, stubs from four pairs of ties, blue edges. (Binding slightly rubbed and rebacked, edges slightly worn.)
provenance: M.P.B., initials on binding — David Laing (1793-1878, librarian of the Signet Library), later booklabel, sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1-11 December 1879, lot 767, £1-1s, to Kerr & Richardson of Glasgow, bookseller's ticket — Arthur Augustus Tilley (1851-1953), armorial bookplate — Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 25 July 1973, part of lot 59, £28, to Maggs. acquisition: Purchased from Maggs Bros, London, 1975. references: UCLA 225; Cataldi Palau 88 (both volumes); Edit16 1222 (both volumes); Renouard 97/5
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Secundo volumine haec continentur. M. T. C. de natura deorum libri III. De divinatione libri II. De fato liber I. Scipionis somnium, quod è sex de rep. libris superest. De legibus libri III. De Universitate liber I. Q. Ciceronis de petitione consulatus ad Marcum fratrem liber I. (Venice: in the house of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, August 1523)
The second volume of a set of Cicero's philosophical works.
Volume 2 only (of 2), 8vo (168 x 100 mm). Italic type, 31 lines plus headline. collation: a-z8 A-D8: 216 leaves (B2 blank except for signature). Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso (otherwise blank), a few deckle edges, some early annotations. (Occasional light staining.)
binding: Contemporary Bolognese dark brown morocco (170 x 100 mm), an early work of the Pflug and Ebeleben Binder (ca. 1535-1547), cartouche on covers formed of gilt and blind fillets, lettered M.T.C. DE NATU DEO on upper cover, lower cover with a fortuna stamp and the initials M.P.B., lettering within an arabesque frame, title lettered along foot of textblock, (later?) blue edges, stubs from four pairs of ties, blue edges. (Binding slightly rubbed and rebacked, edges slightly worn.)
provenance: M.P.B., initials on binding — David Laing (1793-1878, librarian of the Signet Library), later booklabel, sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1-11 December 1879, lot 767, £1-1s, to Kerr & Richardson of Glasgow, bookseller's ticket — Arthur Augustus Tilley (1851-1953), armorial bookplate — Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 25 July 1973, part of lot 59, £28, to Maggs. acquisition: Purchased from Maggs Bros, London, 1975. references: UCLA 225; Cataldi Palau 88 (both volumes); Edit16 1222 (both volumes); Renouard 97/5
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