Beschreibung:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. M. Tullii Ciceronis Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad Quintum fratrem, summa diligentia castigatae, ut in iis menda, quae plurima erant, paucissima iam supersint. Pauli Manutii in easdem epistolas scholia… (Venice: sons of Aldo [Paolo Manuzio], August 1540)
A large paper copy of Cicero's Letters to Atticus and his brother Quintus.
2 parts, 8vo (190 x 112 mm), large paper copy. Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-Z8 AA-VV8 AAA-CCC8: 368 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-pages and final versos.
binding: Crushed red morocco by Trautz-Bauzonnet (198 x 129 mm), spine with gilt lettering, gilt edges with marbling below. (A few small scrapes on covers.)
provenance: Alfred Henry Huth (1850-1910), red morocco booklabel, catalogue of the Huth Library (London, 1880), I, p.320; sale of the Huth library, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, second portion, 7 June 1912, lot 1616, £3-8s, purchased by J. & J. Leighton & Son — Maggs Bros, catalogue 298 (1912), item 3, priced £10-10s — William Smith Watt (1913-2002, scholar of Cicero), sale, Bloomsbury Auctions, London, 25 September 1997, lot 261, £2,400, to Quaritch — Kenneth Rapoport, booklabel, sale, Swann Galleries, 23 October 2012, lot 37. acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale via Robin Halwas. references: UCLA 287; Edit16 12246; Renouard 120/7; T. Kimball Brooker, "Paolo Manutio's use of fore-edge titles for presentation copies (1540-1541)" in The Book Collector 46 (1997), pp.27-68 (p.66 no. 3, location "Unknown")