CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.C.) Laelius de amicitia . -- Hexasticha XII sapientum de titulo Ciceronis . -- Quintus HORATIUS FLACCUS (65-8 B.C.) Ad T. Manlium Torquatum (carm. IV 7). [Cologne: Ulrich Zel, c. 1467]. Chancery half-sheet 4 o (205 x 134mm). Collation : [1-3 8 4 6 ] (1/1r De amicitia , 4/3r Versus xii sapientum , 4/4v Apollonius on Cicero, from Plutarch, incipit : Te nempe cicero et laudo et admiror, 4/4v-5r Horace's ode, incipit : Diffugere nives, redeunt iam gramina campis, 4/5v blank, -4/5 blank). 29 leaves (of 30, without final blank). Pin-holes visible. Gothic type 1:96 (leaded to about 109). 25 lines. Four-line red lombard initial Q. 18th-century German quarter sheep gilt. Quarter-morocco box. Provenance : Eric Sexton (bookplates), sold at Christie's New York, 8th April 1981, lot 42 -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 19 April 1982. EDITIO PRINCEPS -- printed by the prototypographer of Cologne just one or two years after starting his shop -- of Cicero's philosophical essay on friendship, a text much favored in Christian reading and education. The dialogue was known by the name of its principal speaker, Gaius Laelius (Roman consul 140 B.C.), and addressed to Cicero's intimate friend, Atticus. The work was much admired in the Renaissance for its style and dignity; Dante found consolation in it for the death of Beatrice. The other texts in the books were reprinted from the added verses in Peter Schoeffer's 1465-66 Mainz editions of Cicero's De officiis . GW's date of 1470 for Zel's edition is clearly too late. The production fits in perfectly with the group of quartos showing the rounded h only and four pin-holes in each leaf, none of which can be dated after 1467. It also shares a paper stock with Zel's second edition of Gerson's De pollutione nocturna , which is not later than 1468 (see lot 396). For these various reasons this is undoubtedly the first edition and takes precedence over Ulrich Han's Rome edition of c. 1469 (GW 6993). IN THE FRESHEST POSSIBLE CONDITION, and of considerable rarity (two copies in U.S. libraries). H 5302; GW 6994; VK 330; not in BMC; not in BSB; Goff C-559; Flodr 121.315; PBSA (1946), "Bibliographical Notes" p. 160.
CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.C.) Laelius de amicitia . -- Hexasticha XII sapientum de titulo Ciceronis . -- Quintus HORATIUS FLACCUS (65-8 B.C.) Ad T. Manlium Torquatum (carm. IV 7). [Cologne: Ulrich Zel, c. 1467]. Chancery half-sheet 4 o (205 x 134mm). Collation : [1-3 8 4 6 ] (1/1r De amicitia , 4/3r Versus xii sapientum , 4/4v Apollonius on Cicero, from Plutarch, incipit : Te nempe cicero et laudo et admiror, 4/4v-5r Horace's ode, incipit : Diffugere nives, redeunt iam gramina campis, 4/5v blank, -4/5 blank). 29 leaves (of 30, without final blank). Pin-holes visible. Gothic type 1:96 (leaded to about 109). 25 lines. Four-line red lombard initial Q. 18th-century German quarter sheep gilt. Quarter-morocco box. Provenance : Eric Sexton (bookplates), sold at Christie's New York, 8th April 1981, lot 42 -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 19 April 1982. EDITIO PRINCEPS -- printed by the prototypographer of Cologne just one or two years after starting his shop -- of Cicero's philosophical essay on friendship, a text much favored in Christian reading and education. The dialogue was known by the name of its principal speaker, Gaius Laelius (Roman consul 140 B.C.), and addressed to Cicero's intimate friend, Atticus. The work was much admired in the Renaissance for its style and dignity; Dante found consolation in it for the death of Beatrice. The other texts in the books were reprinted from the added verses in Peter Schoeffer's 1465-66 Mainz editions of Cicero's De officiis . GW's date of 1470 for Zel's edition is clearly too late. The production fits in perfectly with the group of quartos showing the rounded h only and four pin-holes in each leaf, none of which can be dated after 1467. It also shares a paper stock with Zel's second edition of Gerson's De pollutione nocturna , which is not later than 1468 (see lot 396). For these various reasons this is undoubtedly the first edition and takes precedence over Ulrich Han's Rome edition of c. 1469 (GW 6993). IN THE FRESHEST POSSIBLE CONDITION, and of considerable rarity (two copies in U.S. libraries). H 5302; GW 6994; VK 330; not in BMC; not in BSB; Goff C-559; Flodr 121.315; PBSA (1946), "Bibliographical Notes" p. 160.
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