Cicero, Marcus Tullius. M. Tullii Ciceronis Epistolae familiares. Pauli Manutii scholia. Venice: Paolo Manuzio, 1554
For another binding from this set, see lot 356.
8vo (162 x 95 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-Z8 AA-QQ8 RR4: 316 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso. (Occasional light soiling.)
binding: Parisian citron morocco mosaiqué binding (170 x 105 mm) by the Atelier des petits classiques, ca. 1720, two frames of gilt fillets with central red morocco shaped onlay with gilt tooling, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges, green Dutch decorated gilt paper endleaves.
provenance: James Thomas Gibson-Craig (1799-1886), sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 27 June-7 July 1887, lot 604 (a set of 10 volumes uniformly bound), £10-15s, bought by Bernard Quaritch — Sir Thomas Brodie (1832-1896), sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 3-7 March 1904, lot 251 (10 volumes, described as Padeloup bindings), £5-2-6, bought by J. & J. Leighton — Louis-Alexandre Barbet (1850-1931), sale, Paris, 7-10 November 1932, lot 299 (just this volume) — Librairie Giraud Badin, catalogue (2003), no. 19. acquisition: Purchased from preceding sale. references: UCLA 456; Edit16 12318; Renouard 161/15
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. M. Tullii Ciceronis Epistolae familiares. Pauli Manutii scholia. Venice: Paolo Manuzio, 1554
For another binding from this set, see lot 356.
8vo (162 x 95 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-Z8 AA-QQ8 RR4: 316 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso. (Occasional light soiling.)
binding: Parisian citron morocco mosaiqué binding (170 x 105 mm) by the Atelier des petits classiques, ca. 1720, two frames of gilt fillets with central red morocco shaped onlay with gilt tooling, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges, green Dutch decorated gilt paper endleaves.
provenance: James Thomas Gibson-Craig (1799-1886), sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 27 June-7 July 1887, lot 604 (a set of 10 volumes uniformly bound), £10-15s, bought by Bernard Quaritch — Sir Thomas Brodie (1832-1896), sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 3-7 March 1904, lot 251 (10 volumes, described as Padeloup bindings), £5-2-6, bought by J. & J. Leighton — Louis-Alexandre Barbet (1850-1931), sale, Paris, 7-10 November 1932, lot 299 (just this volume) — Librairie Giraud Badin, catalogue (2003), no. 19. acquisition: Purchased from preceding sale. references: UCLA 456; Edit16 12318; Renouard 161/15
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